"How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make known to me my transgression and my sin." Job's challenge to God is to specify his offenses. If he has sinned so grievously as to deserve this suffering, God should enumerate the sins. The verse is not penitential—it is sarcastic. Job is calling God's bluff: if the retributive system is true, God must be able to explain it.

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