after so much space has been given to the speeches of the friends, who have defended God at every turn and justified the violence against job as divinely mandated, we find this flat conclusion that they have not spoken the
truth. Job, who has called God his persecutor and denounced God's injustice and indifference, has spoken what is right. There is hardly a more amazing line in the Bible. Job has seemed to talk of two different Gods - an adversary God for whom he is only a sacrificial target, and a divine vindicator, the God who sides with victims. And we may say that Job has spoken what is
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