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Job mourns his deep affliction and cries for God’s judgment while seeking understanding and empathy from friends.
In this chapter, Job laments that his suffering is weighed heavier than the sea’s sand and that the divine arrows of God sting him like poison. He questions whether the suffering he endures is justified, longing for God’s will to be known and for relief even if it means destruction. Job reflects on his own perceived strength, comparing it to stones and brass, and doubts whether he can endure longer. He admonishes his friends for failing to show pity, describing their deceitful behavior like a disappearing brook, and laments that they have become empty. He calls for them to return to righteousness, to understand his anguish, and to remove the iniquity in his tongue.
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Job’s tone is dominated by profound sorrow and desperation, with a faint hope for divine understanding.