"His archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys without mercy; he pours out my gall on the ground." The image of archery suggests that Job is surrounded and targeted from all directions. The slashing of kidneys and pouring of gall suggests disembowelment and evisceration. The mercilessness is explicit. Job is not merely punished but aesthetically destroyed from within.

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