God continues 'Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in the hidden place.' This verse adds another dimension to the command: not merely to humble or tread down, but to hide and bind. The image of hiding in dust and binding faces suggests not merely defeat but concealment and complete subjugation. Job cannot accomplish such action. The accumulation of increasingly detailed commands about subjugating wrongdoers reaches a kind of absurdity: the commands become so specific and powerful that their very impossibility makes clear that Job is being asked the impossible. The rhetorical strategy seems designed to force recognition that Job lacks power to judge or enact justice.

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