“Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:”
Job requests that God remove his rod from him and that his dread of God not terrify him, expressing the desire for release from divine assault. The rod represents divine punishment; its removal would provide relief. The fear of God has become not reverence but terror, a primal fear before an overwhelmingly hostile force.
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