Job declares that he will not restrain his mouth but will speak in the anguish of his spirit and complain in the bitterness of his soul, asserting his right to lament and protest. The refusal to restrain speech represents a claim to the authenticity of grief: it cannot and should not be suppressed. The declaration of the right to complain establishes lament as the appropriate response to unjust suffering.

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