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  • From: "Reginald Wallace Ponder, Jr." <rwponder AT lycos.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Job 42:1-6
  • Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:31:12 -0500


> Dear Bill -- Thanks for your interest in this topic. This has been a
> helpful discussion for me.
Shalom -- Reggie

I wrote:-
>
> >RWP: It is exactly "just how little he understood of YHWH," coupled with
> >the
> >conventional widsom dispensed by the friends (who themselves understand
> >much
> >less of YHWH than they realize) that sparked Job's grief-unto-despair.
> >What
> >Job finally does in Chapter 42, perhaps, is to *rest* -- something he has
> >not
> >done for the rest of the book.

And you responded:-
>
> This is an excellent point. In the few discussions of Job I've had in
> study groups several times I've tried to make the point that it is
> possible that Job's speeches are an over-reaction to the persistant
> accusation of personal wickedness leveled at him by his friends.
> I don't think I've gotten anyone to buy into that argument yet.
> But if true then YHWH's speeches give him reason to rest from his
> labour of words.

I wrote:>
> > Although it could be that Job *cannot* speak, as you suggest, the
> >alternative is that he *doesn't have to* -- he has been freed from the
> >treadmill of his own words.

And you responded:->
> I think it's clear he can speak -- 42:2-6 are his words. I wasn't
> intending to say he couldn't, just that given the opportunity he
> has nothing to say.
>
RWP: You're exactly right here. Shalom.

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