"Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me!" Job's plea to the friends is for compassion. He asks them to recognize that his condition results from divine assault, not from his own wickedness. The repetition of "pity" expresses desperate need. Yet even as he asks for compassion from the friends, he acknowledges that God is the true source of his suffering.

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