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THE USE OF RHETORICAL IRONY
IN GOD'S CHARGES AGAINST JOB
DAVID R. JACKSON
he extended debate in the Book of Job draws the reader in. Swayed by the
various speakers, the reader feels pity for Job, is horrified by his suffering
and outraged at the cruelty of the friends. The force of Job's defense, especially
as he speaks to and about God, heightens the discomfort. As the three friends
fade away exhausted, Elihu intensifies the assault only to be followed by God
himself who fearfully and aggressively questions Job. Given the prologue this
seems contradictory. Then suddenly God vindicates Job and condemns the
friends. The resolution of this long debate, without God actually explaining
why any of this has happened, sends the audience away to reflect on matters.
The reader however has the benefit of the prologue. Some have tried to resolve
the tension by removing the prologue and epilogue from the original form of
the book, but moving the problem from author to editors still leaves the question begging.
A clue to the literary sophistication of this book may lie in Job's observation
that he is a masal (ariddle,parable, or proverb). While claiming that God has
kept his friends from understanding (Job 17:4; cf. Matt 13:11) Job declares that
he himself has become a masal to them (17:6). Therighteousman is a masal and
the secret to understanding him is hidden from the wicked, so Job says (17:10),
"I cannot find a wise man among you."
Polk concludes, with respect to the masal:
From the point of view of the parable, the readers' determination toward it, whatever
their responses, identifies their place in the parable's world, and hence their relation to
its truth. In our judgements toward the parable, the parable judges us. So it is with the
maSal.1
David R. Jackson is Head of Biblical Studies at William Carey Christian School, and an Honorary Associate at
Macquarie University, and the University of Sydney, in New South Woks, Australia. This article is a supplement to
his Crying Out for Vindication: The Gospel According to Job (Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian & Reformed, 2007).
1
Timothy Polk, "Paradigms, Parables, and Mesalim: O n Reading the Malaiin Scripture," CBQ
45 (1983): 564-83. See also A. R. Johnson, "Masai/' in Wisdom in Israel and in the Ancient Near East:
Presented to Harold Henry Rowley in Celebration of His Sixty fifth Birthday (ed. Martin Noth and D. Winston
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And so it is with the Book of Job.2 The inherent ambiguity of the wording of
42:6 (did Job despise/reject something or did he melt; did he repent or was he
comforted?) may be an intentional aspect of the masal technique,
The masal assumes a polemical context. It discriminates wisdom from folly.
The Book of Job is constructed as a dramatic and passionate polemic frequently employing sarcasm and irony. An analysis of God's final addresses to
Job reveals a careful and repetitive use of technical terms that formed the key
concepts in that polemic.3 Particularly significant are the words that the LORD
had said to the satan in 2:3:4
Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a
blameless {tarn) and upright (ysr) man fearing (yr3) God and turning away (swr) from
evil (rac). And he still holds fast his integrity (tummh) although you incited Me against
him to ruin him without cause (hinnm).
Throughout the polemic Job has argued that this is exactly what the LORD
had done to him, in a context where neither he, nor his immediate audience,
could have any knowledge of the events that precipitated God's actions. God's
final affirmation (42:7-8) that "you [the friends] have not spoken of Me what is
right as My servant Job has" is a shocking and confronting confirmation of these
words. Job and God agree that God did this to Job without cause. If, by this, the
Creator of all the earth were to be accused of injustice, then the Creator here
pleads guilty. But his address to Job, and reaffirmation of Job's integrity (tarn),
occurs in the context of an extended and confronting reminder that the Creator
is not accountable to the creature. This then removes any grounds for any accusation that Job has been attempting to justify himself at God's expense. What
then are we to make of the rhetoric of the LORD's address to Job (38-41)?
Charge # 1 . Job 38:2 Who is this that darkens {hsk)
counsel (csh) by words without knowledge (ydc)?
Job has asked God whether it is right for God to contend with Job and
oppress him while looking favorably on "the schemes (csh) of the wicked" (10:3).
He has confessed that wisdom, might, counsel (CJA), and understanding belong to
the LORD (12:13). He says:
Thomas; VTSup 3; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1955), 162-69; E Hauck, "parabole," 7JWT 5:744-61; George
M Landes, "Jonah: AMasal?" in Israelite Wisdom: Theological andLiterary Essays in Honor of Samuel Terrier
(ed. John G. Gammie et al.; Missoula, Mont.: Scholars Press, 1978), 137-58; David Winston Suter,
Masai in the Similitudes of Enoch," JBL 100 (1981): 193-212.
2
Reading the Book of Job as a masal does not imply that it isfiction.Job certainly does not use
the term with that sense in 17:6.
3
Cf. hinnm without cause; hsk darkens; ju/< know;ykh reproves;^5 fearingj^w faultfinder, one
who corrects, disciplines, admonishes, or chastens, chastisement, discipline;ySr upright; misptjugt
mexit\yisptjudges; swr turning away; *wt pervert, wrong, make crooked; cnh answer; csh counsel; nhm
comfort, be sorry; prr break or frustrate; sdq righteousness, justice; rac evil; ryb contend; rsK condemn, be evil; siyhh meditation; PI ask; tarn blameless; tummh integrity.
4
Unless otherwise indicated, all English citations of the Bible are taken from the NASB.
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calling upon God to help him and to resolve this impasse. He has not filed a
lawsuit against God. He cannot. He has only asked God to permit him to do so
and then to make it possible.
If now God has chosen the first alternative ("call, and I will answer" 38:3b;
40:2b), then he has acceded to Job's requests:
Z me know (ydc) why you contend (ryi) with me. (10:2b)
How many are my iniquities and sins?
Make known to me (ydc) my rebellion and my sin. (13:23)
Job believes that if he were to be able to present his case before God,
I would learn ("He would cause me to know") the words which He would answer,
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9:15, 19, 34-35), but he sees God as the one who has initiated the case (10:2).
The case is being heard in the wrong court as the friends contend with Job, as if
they were bringing God's case against Job on God's behalf (13:8). Job wants
God alone to hear his case and decide between Job and his adversary = "the one
who contends with me" (31:35). Here again is the ambiguity of the masal polemic.
The one who understands knows that the adversary is the satan not God.
God's words to Job in 40:2 are almost a paraphrase of Job's accusation
against the friends in ch. 13. There Job rebuked the friends for attempting to
contend on God's behalf (13:8). He claims that they are misrepresenting God
(13:7) and speaking lies about Job (13:4).
Charge # 4 . J o b 40:2 Let him w h o reproves (ykfj)
G o d answer (cnh) it.
It is difficult to see how Job's actions are worthy of this rebuke. The verb ykh,
when applied to a person as the direct object, means to reprove, chide, or correct. It
can also mean to argue with. Eliphaz uses this term (5:17; 22:4) to claim that God
is reproving Job, and Job (6:25-26) compares Eliphaz's rebuke to casting lots for
orphans.
Job first calls for someone else to stand between God and Job and take the
part of an umpire (ykh 9:33). Later (13:3) he expresses his desire to "argue with
God." In fact he is prepared to argue his case before God (13:15) even if God
kills him. Job's problem is that he cannot imagine how this could be possible:
0 that a man might plead (ykh) with God
As a man with his neighbor! (16:21)
Oh that I knew where I might find Him,
That I might come to His seat!
1 would present my case (mispt) before Him
Andfillmy mouth with arguments (yki).
I would learn the words which He would answer (cnh),
And perceive what He would say to me.
Would He contend with me (ryb) by the greatness of His power?
No, surely He would pay attention to me.
There the upright would reason with Him (ykh);
And I would be delivered forever from my Judge. (23:3-7)
Job's assertion that the LORD would reason with the upright is taken a step
further by Isaiah (1:18) who extends the LORD's invitation to wayward Judah:
"Come now, and let us reason together (ykh)"
Says the LORD,
"Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool."
Eliphaz sees Job's arguing as "useless talk" (15:3). Job says that if God permits
the friends to rebuke him as one in disgrace, God will have wronged him (19:5; cf.
2:3). Elihu is outraged that no one has succeeded in reproving Job (32:12) and
asserts that Job's suffering is God's rebuke/chastening (33:19).
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Eliphaz connects the question of rebuke with Job's fear (yr>) of God, and his
integrity (tarn). He sarcastically asks if God reproves Job because he fears God so
much (22:4)an oxymoron resonant with irony (cf. 1:8-9; 4:6). We note that at
the inception of Job's trial God had offered Job's integrity and the fact that he
fears God (1:8; 2:3) as the bait, and the question put to God by the satan in reply
was, "Does Job fear God^&r nothing (hinnm)?" (1:9).
So Eliphaz's appeal (4:6) is initially on solid ground, but is immediately compromised (4:7-8) by his understanding that the righteous cannot suffer since
that would be unjust. He therefore advises Job to call upon the LORD and
upon him alone (5:5, 8). The implication is that Job should sue for mercy as a
penitent sinner (cf. Bildad's advice at 8:20). But then that would require Job to
deny his integrity and the satan would have won.
Elihu on the other hand wants Job to "be tried to the limit" because "he adds
rebellion to his sin" as he "multiplies his words against God" (Job 34:36-37; cf.
charge #1). He is outraged that Job would continue to maintain his innocence
because that would imply injustice on God's part, and so is heard to be a rebuke
of God himself.
The Book of Job is structured around a prolonged debate in which each side
answers the other. It begins when God questions the satan and the satan answers
(1:7, 9; 2:2, 4). Job has consistently expressed his realization that no one could
answer God (9:3, 14-16, 32) even though he would attempt to do so if God
would give him the opportunity (13:22; 14:15). His only hope would be if a
mediator could speak on his behalf (9:32-33; 16:19). He bewails God's failure to
answer his cries (19:7, 16; 30:20; 31:35) and longs to "learn the words which he
would answer" (23:5).
Elihu is offended that Job would want God to answer him (33:13).
In this fourth charge God is again verbalizing the accusations of the friends.
Charge # 5 . Job 40:8
Will you really annul (prr) My judgment (mispt)?
Will you condemn (rsc) Me that you may be justified
(sdq)?
Behind this charge stand the mutually exclusive assumptions of the two sides
in this debate. Job believes, and therefore assumes, that God's judgment is that
he is righteous. The friends cannot countenance such a possibility. To answer
the first of these two questions, one must first know what God's judgment was
with respect to Job. Job believes, and the reader knows, that God had declared
Job to be righteous and, further, that the harm done to him had been without
cause. The only people therefore who might be guilty of annulling that judgment would be Job's friends.
This charge echoes Job's plea to God:
I will say to God, "Z> not condemn me (rsc);
Let me know why You contend (ryb cf. 40:1) with me." (10:2)
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Throughout the debate the question of Job's righteousness (sdq) has been argued
back and forth, thus:
Can mankind be just before God?
Can a man be pure before his Maker? (4:17)
And Job has affirmed his righteousness before God against the injustice of Eliphaz's argument:
Desist now, let there be no injustice;
Even desist, my righteousness is yet in it. (6:29)
Bildad is certain that any claim on Job's part to righteousness must imply that
God is unjust to have inflicted such suffering upon him (8:3, 6).
Zophar is determined that Job not be found to be righteous (11:2) while Job is
certain that he will (13:18).
Eliphaz has accused Job of annulling or breaking (prr) reverence (yr* = the fear of
the LORD) (15:4). Eliphaz and Bildad believe firmly that man, being a creature, cannot be righteous before God (15:14; 25:4). For them it is not about one's
behavior but about one's ontological rank in the created order.
Eliphaz mocks the idea that God would even be interested in a man being
righteous and asks:
Is there any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous,
Or profit if you make your ways perfect (tarn)? (22:3)
From the prologue (cf. 1:8; 2:3) God obviously does put great importance on
Job's righteousness and blameUssness.
Job says he will die before he admits the friends are in the right (27:5). He
recalls earlier days when he was a man respectedthen he wore his righteousness
as a garment and acted on behalf of the poor (29:14). He willingly calls for God
to weigh him with just scales (31:6) so that the LORD will know his righteousness.
The reader knows that God agrees with Job's claim. Job does not need to condemn God to justify himself.
It is Elihu (32:2) who said that Job had justified himself before God. Elihu
claims that Job is not right because he is demanding that God give an account
of all his doings (33:12-13). Mockingly Elihu calls upon Job to speak because he
claims he wanted Xo justify ]ob (33:32). He quotes Job accurately when he says
For Job has said, "I am righteous, But God has taken away my right (mispi)." (34:5)
In fact Job had said:
As God lives, who has taken away my right (mispt). (27:2)
This is not quite the same as saying that God had taken away justice (sdq), but
it comes very close. Job is saying that God has denied him his day in court (mispt
= judgment) and made his life miserable, which is true. Elihu makes the most of
this as he takes Job's words a step further:
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right (sdq)?"
be justified (sdq)?"
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In his reply Job struggles to imagine how a man could ever win a dispute with
God and declares such a thing to be impossible. The Creator-creature distinction makes this so (9:1 -14). Job says that all he could do would be to cry out for
mercy (9:15).
In this flow of thought, between two assertions of his righteousness/innocence (9:15, 21), Job says (9:16-17):
If I called and He answered me,
I could not believe that He was listening to my voice.
For He bruises me with a tempest
And multiplies my wounds without cause (hinnm cf. 1:9; 2:3).
Thus the LORD himself has, unknown to Job or the friends, but known to
the reader, affirmed that Job's words in 9:17 are quite right. He has ruined Job
without cause. God affirms that Job has spoken "of me what is right" (42:7-8).
Interestingly, the only other occurrence of the word is found on the lips of
Eliphaz at 22:6 in a speech (w. 1-6) that has a number of verbal connections
with both the LORD's initial description of Job and his final questioning of
Job. Eliphaz asks:
Is there any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous (sdq cf. 40:8)
Or profit if you make your ways perfect? (tarn cf. 1:1, 8; 2:3; 4:6; 8:20; 9:20-22 three
times)
Is it because of your reverence (yr>) that He reproves you (ykh cf. 1:1,8; 2:3; 15:4; 40:2),
That He enters into judgment (mispt cf. 40:8) against you?
Is not your wickedness great (cf. 1:8; etc. turning awayfromevil),
And your iniquities without end?
For you have taken pledges of your brothers without cause (hinnm),
And stripped men naked.
In this speech Eliphaz moves from cruel misunderstanding to direct and
patently false accusations.
In 9:20b Job states, "Though I am guiltless, He will declare me guilty."
Taken on its own this statement would certainly appear to convict Job of the
charge implied in God's question (40:8): "Will you condemn (rsc) Me that you
may be justified (sdq)?99 Taken in parallel with 9:20a, however, Job's words are
capable of a different construction altogether:
Though I amrighteous,my mouth will condemn me;
Though I am guiltless, He will declare me guilty.
Job has waxed eloquent on the Creator-creature distinction, noting that no
one could question God's actions (9:12b) and that if he were to appear before
God's presence he would be unable to speak, or he would say something wrong
("my mouth will condemn me") so that though innocent of the original
charges, he would offend God by his clumsy defense. It is in this context, where,
hypothetically, God and Job are facing each other in court and Job is unable to
speak, that he envisions himself being condemned in spite of his innocence. He
concludes (9:32):
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I am a joke to my friends.
The one who called on God, and He answered him;
the just and blameless man is a joke. (12:4)
The exact opposite of the friends' concept of God's just governance (cf.
15:17-35; 18:5-21 ; 20:4-29) is all around (12:6). Evenfishknow that all of this is
God's doing (12:7-9; cf. 1:21; 21:7-34). God is sovereign (12:10) and there is no
escaping that he has ordered Job's suffering. Job then begins his own "cosmic
tour" illustrating the Creator-creature distinction (12:13-25), only his tour
takes in a range of human authorities who all find themselves subject to God's
judgment and purposes. Human prosperity and power come and go at the will
of God alone.
In this Job is affirming what both he and the friends would agree is the nne
qua non of the whole issue: God is sovereign. What happens is only by his decree.
The friends claim that everything that happens to people is God's response to
their sin or virtue. Job says they are maligning God by proposing such a mechanistic understanding (13:7-12). Or is God partial to some and not others? If the
good are blessed and the wicked punished, why, he asks, aren't his friends sitting
in the dust next to him?? This is sarcasm.
In the clearest terms Job states (19:6): "Know then that God has wrongedme."
The word here is ciwtanip. When used with a person as the direct object, as here,
it means to pervertjustice or defraud (cf. Ps 119:78; Lam 3:36). Earlier Bildad had
accused Job of saying just this (cf. 8:3). Later Elihu will defend God against such
a charge (34:12). Job here certainly seems to be justifying Bildad's charge and
laying the basis for the LORD's. Clines argues that Job here is accusing God of
destroying his reputation and publicly branding him as a sinner in the eyes of his
friends.5 They have insulted him and dealt harshly with him ( 19:3). If they launch
themselves against him and win their day in court (19:5) Job still defies them and
says that he is innocent (19:6). If their case against him is successful it will be
because God has so ordered it. If that were to happen, God will have subverted
Job. This is the hypothetical outcome in a conditional sentence (Hm... ^p if...
then). Certainly the net is closing in on Job and his enemies are advancing ( 19:6b19). In such circumstances he calls for pity (19:21) and looks to his Redeemer
(19:25-27), certain that if the condition put forward in v. 6 were to be fulfilled, the
friends who won the day would bring down on themselves God's wrath. Thus,
within the overall argument of the speech, Job is saying that this hypothetical
result ("God has wronged me") is not going to happen.
This question from the mouth of God (40:8) precisely echoes the charges
Bildad (8:3) and Elihu (33:2) had brought against Job. Are they correct? Is this
what Job meant at 27:2? At 40:8 God puts the question to Job, and at 2:3 and
42:7-8 he supplies the answer.
5
David J. A. Clines, Job 1-20 (WBC 17; Dallas: Word, 1989), 441-42.
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Job:
Can anyone teach God knowledge (yelammed dcat),
In that He judges (yispat) those on high? (21:22) (cf. #5 above)
And in an extended speech to Bildad (26:5-14) Job employs extensive ironic
polemic against Canaanite cosmology (cf. Behemoth and Leviathan in Job
40-41) to stress how little we know of God.
Elihu's delivery of this theme is almost as prolonged as the LORD's (35:5-8;
36:22-37:24) and bears striking similarity to the "Comforter" of Isa 40, who
prepares the way of the LORD in the wilderness. Like Elihu, Isaiah's Comforter
addresses the LORD's suffering people in exile, responding to their cries that the
LORD has forgotten them and disregarded their cause (Isa 40:27). The Comforter in Isaiah comes to attend to his lost and exiled people and carry them
gendy home. He then fires off a tirade of questions (Isa 40:12-31) to remind
God's people that he is faithful whether they understand how or why or not. God
is not answerable to his creatures. In a context where the command is given to
"Comfort, comfort my people" (nhm cf. Job 42:6) the prophet points to their lack
of knowledge (Isa 40:21, 28). He asks (40:27):
Why do you say, O Jacob,
and assert, O Israel,
"My way is hidden from the LORD,
And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God?" (cf. charge #1)
The assurance is given that such is not the case (40:31).
The speeches of the LORD in Job 38:4-39:30; 40:15-41:34 and those of the
Comforter in Isa 40:1-31 do not attempt to convict of sin, but rather to remind
and reassure. The suffering righteous one's lack of knowledge, or lack of
understanding, is not rebuked as a sin that requires repentance, but as a reality
that should enable him to defer to the LORD and so keep things in perspective
and persevere in faithfulness.
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Agur the son of Jakeh delivers a similar message, laced with something of the
same sarcasm that we find on Job's lips (Prov 30:1-6):
The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the oracle.
The man declares to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal:
Surely I am more stupid than any man,
And I do not have the understanding of a man. (cf. Job 12:2)
Neither have I learned wisdom,
Nor do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.
Who has ascended into heaven and descended?
Who has gathered the wind in His fists?
Who has wrapped the waters in His garment?
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is His name or His son's name?
Surely you know! (cf. Job 38:5, 18, 21, 33)
Every word of God is tested;
He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.
Do not add to His words (cf. Job 6:10)
Or He will reprove you,
and you will be proved a liar.
Paul delivers a similar reminder in Rom 9:19-21:
You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?" On
the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God (ho antapokrinomenos to
theo)? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this,"
will it? Or does not the potter have arightover the clay, to make from the same lump
one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?
The natural and logical questions expressed in Rom 9:19 are answered by
putting any person who questions God in their place. In Rom 9 the person is
questioning the justice of God's election of some to mercy and others to "hardening." The implication is that the appropriate response is silent acceptance.
The creature does not answer back to God (9:20). The same word (antapokrithmai)
occurs in Luke 14:6 where Jesus silences the Pharisees and experts in the law.
Interestingly, the word only occurs twice in the LXX, both times in Job. In Job
16:8 it is used to translate the phrase (bepnayya caneh = to answer in my face). At
32:12, Elihu asserts:
Indeed, there was no one who refuted (ykh = elengchon) Job,
Not one of you who answered (cnh = antapokrinomenos) his words.
In Job 40:2 we again have the synonymous parallelism of ykh argue (elengchon)
and cnh answer; however, on this occasion instead of antapokrinomenos LXX offers
the milder apokrithisetai.
The point standsno man, nor any other created being, is going to call God
to account. To the end of the Book of Job, even though God vindicates Job and
the things he had said, the LORD does not explain to Job or his friends why he
has done this, nor does he let them in on the opening scenes. Only the reader
has that information.
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Conclusion
On this analysis, God has appeared, as requested by Job. In his address to
Job he has presented the charges that the friends have made against Job.
The introductory words of the LORD's opening address to Job, "Who is this
who" (Job 38:2) may be read in two ways. Either what follows constitutes the
LORD's charges against Job, or they are a citation of charges laid by others and
brought to the LORD's attention. These words ("Who is this who") would meet
Fox's criteria for identifying an "attributed quotation," being "an explicit verb
of speaking or thinking."6 He also notes the occurrence, particularly in poetry,
of "functional ambiguity." The difficulty lies in establishing some objective
control lest it "become an all-purpose tool for artificial elimination of difficulties."7 He therefore suggests that the control needed in identifying functional
ambiguity is the context. In the narrower context of Job 38-42, this ambiguity
appears to be a deliberate dramatic device designed to heighten the impact of
the climax in 42:7-11 when Job is vindicated.
At the heart of the confusion governing the debates lies the shocking
realitya reality revealed to the reader in the opening narrativethat God
did, in fact, inflict harm on Job without cause. Job has asserted this to be the case
based only on his firm belief that God has declared him righteous and that he
has done nothing that would give grounds for God to so afflict him. In the ears
of the friends such assertions could only be understood to imply that God had
acted unjustly. If, in fact, God's treatment of Job was unjust in this sense, then at
Job 2:3 God himself pleaded guilty to the charge. What Job and the friends do
not know, however, is that God had set this up to be a test not so much of Job's
integrity, but of the integrity of God's dealings with men whereby a man could
be declared righteous and blameless before God and his loyalty to God have its
own integrity without being a simple exchange of compliance for prosperity.
The repeated assertion of the Creator-creature distinction by all sides serves to
affirm the conclusion that God has the right to so test one of his servants in
order to prove false the claims of the satan.
6
Michael V Fox, "The Identification of Quotations in Biblical Literature," < W 9 2 (1980):
416-31; here 420-25.
7
Ibid., 428.
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