"And you have shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness has risen up against me, it testifies to my face." Job's wasted body becomes evidence used against him. His visible suffering is read as proof of guilt. Yet Job is asserting that this reading is false—his body witnesses to divine assault, not to moral corruption. The verse expresses the trap: suffering is treated as confession.

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