1. Job 21:1 (ESV)
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Commentary on Job 21:1 (Summary)

Job 21:1 (ESV)

1 Then Job answered and said:

With this speech, the second cycle of speeches is concluded. This is Job’s only speech in which he never addresses God. His entire speech is a counterattack against his friends’ basic assumption, that suffering is (always) punishment for wickedness.

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