And Job again took up his discourse and said, introducing Job's penultimate speech, in which he will recount his past blessedness and present desolation to establish the dramatic reversal that characterizes his condition. The formula again took up suggests that this discourse follows the wisdom poem and represents a different kind of address, more autobiographical and accusatory than the wisdom instruction. The structure of Job taking up discourse multiple times establishes his narrative authority and the importance assigned to his voice. This introduction marks the final sustained argument Job will make before God himself speaks.

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