"For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth." Job accuses God of maintaining a written record of his offenses and punishing him for youthful follies. The image of God as record-keeper (which recurs in the psalms of lament) suggests that Job's present suffering is not spontaneous divine wrath but calculated retribution for past faults. Yet this assumes the very retributive system he has challenged.

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