Continuing his appeal to creation, Job invokes the earth and sea as witnesses: "Speak to the earth, and it will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you." The cumulative appeal to all creation suggests that divine wisdom is written in cosmic order, not reducible to human moral formulas. Job is preparing to argue that God's ways transcend the retributive system his friends defend, and that this transcendence is visible to anyone willing to observe without prejudice.

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