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follow the threads of the dialogue. When seven days had passed since the arrival of Job's three friends, Job finally released his 'pent-up emotions', by cursing the day of his birth (verses 2-10), before turning to questioning in verses 11-26. In all of his words, Job did not directly curse God as the Adversary had predicted (1:11) or his wife had suggested (2:9). Nothing in Job's "self-curse" or "self-imprecation" is inconsistent with his faith in God, Job's words are best understood as a bitter cry of pain or protest out of an existential dilemma,

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