After God's challenging confrontation, reminding Job of his ignorance, Job repents. Job's repentance is not due to his acceptance of his punishment as just when understood in the light of the retribution dogma. His contrition is due to his recognition that God's revelation transcends human comprehension. God cannot be defined by human logic. Consequently “prosperity and adversity have no necessary connection with goodness and wickedness.”4 Thus Job says: I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know…. I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear,
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