Job uses an analogy to question whether animals cry out when they have food and whether an ox lows when it has fodder, suggesting that cries of distress arise from genuine lack rather than from petulance or complaint. The implicit claim is that just as animals cry out only when truly deprived, Job's lament arises from genuine and substantive suffering. The analogy defends the legitimacy of his grievance against the implicit suggestion that he is merely being impatient.

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