God continues 'Cast abroad the rage of your anger, and see every one that is proud, and abase him.' This verse commands Job to demonstrate the ability to punish the proud and humble the arrogant. The command to cast abroad anger and abase the proud seems directed at showing that Job has neither the power nor the right to execute judgment. Job cannot punish pride or abase the arrogant; such action belongs to God. The verse establishes that justice—in the form of humbling the proud—requires power that only God possesses. Job, lacking such power, cannot serve as judge. The verse subtly suggests that Job's complaint presupposes a judicial role that Job cannot actually fill. Yet the verse also implicitly asks: if God casts abroad anger and abases the proud, why does the proud sometimes prosper and the humble sometimes suffer?

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