"Are you the first man that was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?" Eliphaz now appeals to wisdom tradition, suggesting that Job cannot have access to primordial or transcendent knowledge. The rhetorical questions imply that Job has presumed to speak with the voice of primordial wisdom while being merely human and recent. This verse begins Eliphaz's argument that human pretension to wisdom is itself sinful.

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