property. On the other hand, the complaint can be addressed to God against God. Psalm 88 is an extreme case. Here it is the justice of God that has failed. In such a case, Israel has no other court of appeal, and so with great risk, Israel must return again and again to the same court with the same charge.24 The psalm is relentless, and that must be reckoned a very dangerous act, to keep petitioning the court of Yahweh against its own injustice. In both complaints, concerning failed human ḥesed