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Job 38–42 is the final volume in professor David Cline’s monumental study of Job. This volume is devoted entirely to the response of the Lord from the tempest to Job and the replies of Job (Job 38–42), presenting the Lord’s own explanation of his manifold purposes in creation and bringing to an unexpected conclusion Job’s dramatic quest for justice.

to follow 39:25 (horse), he adds a colon about the horse after 39:24a, and he regards 41:13–34 (Leviathan) as secondary. Though he also identifies a number of larger units (38:2–18 + 21; 38:19–20 + 22–23 + 29–30 + 24–27 + 31–38), the divisions seem determined by content rather than on poetic-structural grounds. The genre of the speech as a whole is that of the disputation speech. The proem (38:2–3) and the peroration (40:2) display typical features of this genre, viz. the challenge to the opponent
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