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Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 18A: Job 21–37 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Learn how every element of Job is an essential element in the weaving of a literary and theological masterpiece. Examine the enigmatic origins and context of Job, its textual tradition, its complex structural relationships, and keys to its elegant poetry. This volume never loses sight of the big picture or the details. It constantly surveys the progress of Job, unravels the identity of its...

sense for Job to complain that God is not answering his charges; for God is not accountable to humans, he “does not fit man’s measure” (JB), he “cannot be expected to vindicate His ways to man” (Gibson). Others think that Elihu means that “God is above the petty feelings that Job has attributed to him” in vv 10–11 (Rowley; similarly Duhm “above all arbitrary, unreasoning hostility”; so too Davidson). It is less likely that he means that, because God is more powerful than humans, they cannot
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