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Job Confesses God’s Unanswerable Power
Job 9:1–13 — “Job Confesses God’s Unanswerable Power.”
WHAT IS HAPPENING Job agrees that God is mighty and just, but asks how a mortal can bring a case before such an overwhelming Judge. His longing for a “daysman,” an arbiter between God and man, becomes one of the book’s major mediation trajectories.
THIS MOVEMENT The section’s own focus is “Job Confesses God’s Unanswerable Power.” It begins, “Then Job answered and said,” and closes, “If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.”.