"And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?" Job asks why God bothers to judge such insignificant creatures. The verse resumes direct address to God with a tone of bewilderment. If humans are so brief and insignificant, why should they be held to cosmic standards of justice? The question implies that divine judgment of humans is ontologically inappropriate—like judging the flower for its brevity.

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