it his Vindicator that he saw? Or was the Yahweh of the speeches not the very same deity that Job had imagined in his worst nightmares as a cosmic bully who cannot be held to account (9:12–20)? Now that he has seen Yahweh for himself, seen him with his own eyes, and heard him deny him the vindication he so craved, he can have no more hope. Sentence by sentence through the divine speeches his words in 14:19 have come true for him: “as water wears away stone and torrents scour the soil from the land