implying to Job that suffering can come without God’s mysteriously turning into an enemy (13:24), and to the friends that completely innocent people can suffer terribly. Yhwh’s second speech thus rebukes the theology of the friends and subtly vindicates Job by severing any necessary link between suffering and sin or suffering and divine anger. When Job earlier asked who else it could be except God who destroyed his life (9:24), his confusion was understandable, but he had completely misread his true