Job 9:1-22

JOB—NOTE ON Job 9:1 Job responds, in a speech that is relentlessly legal: ch. Job 9:1 is framed by the term contend (Job 9:3; Job 10:2), and legal terms occur throughout the chapter (e.g., Job 9:2, Job 9:3, Job 9:14, Job 9:19, Job 9:20, Job 9:32, Job 9:33).