JOB—NOTE ON Job 22:1 Third Cycle. The consistent pattern of the first two cycles unravels in this last dialogue. Eliphaz describes Job’s life as a constant stream of wicked activity (ch. Job 22:1). Job’s reply (chs. Job 23:1) strongly implies that the divine power that has afflicted him is impulsive and destructive. Bildad offers the beginning of a reply (ch. Job 25:1) before Job interrupts with a further assertion of the mystery of divine power (ch. Job 26:1; see next section). Zophar does not speak in this cycle. Job and his friends disagree more strongly now than when they started this discussion.

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