God continues 'Humble yourself with power; every proud one see and abase him.' This verse returns to the command to humble the proud, now explicitly linking humbling with power. The image of humbling with power suggests that justice requires not merely judgment but enforcement. Job cannot humble with power; God can. The verse reinforces that doing justice requires power, and power is God's exclusive prerogative. Job, lacking power, cannot do justice and therefore cannot judge whether God is doing justice. The accumulation of commands about power and judgment now becomes overwhelming: Job is repeatedly asked to do what only God can do. The repetition suggests that God is making a point not merely through argument but through the very accumulation and weight of the questions.

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