“Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.”
"Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die." If no one could argue against him, Job would accept silence and death. The implication is that his present anguish comes from the contradiction between his integrity and his suffering—resolving that contradiction, even through vindication in death, would bring peace. The verse suggests that Job's deepest need is not comfort but coherence.
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