"He pours contempt on princes and looses the belt of the strong." The belt that girds strength is loosened, reducing the powerful to helplessness. Contempt is poured on princes—divine derision becomes an instrument of reduction. Job is emphasizing that divine power does not merely govern but humiliates, does not merely direct but shames. This vision of God is incompatible with the friends' claim that suffering is redemptive instruction.

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