And if not now, who will prove me a liar and make my word worth nothing, closing chapter 24 with a challenge to anyone to refute Job's catalog of injustice and the divine apparent indifference that permits it. The assertion if not now suggests that if Job's depiction of injustice does not accurately describe reality, the burden of refutation falls on his opponents. The question about who will prove him a liar implies Job's confidence that his observations are empirically accurate and cannot be successfully disputed. This closing line establishes that Job's complaint is grounded in demonstrable reality—the visible injustice that characterizes the world—and that anyone who would defend God must account for this empirical reality.

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