Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain, turning the tables on the friends by suggesting that their own experience should teach them the truth that Job is articulating. The assertion that they have seen suggests that the friends have observed the same reality Job observes—the injustice, the wicked's apparent prosperity, the righteous person's suffering. The question about why they have become vain suggests that the friends have chosen to blind themselves to what they have seen, that their arguments against Job require a kind of willful ignorance. Job's rhetorical question implies that truth is available to human perception but requires intellectual honesty to acknowledge.

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