Kommentar zu Ijow 21:4

Am I speaking to man Why should you make an issue of my complaint? Am I complaining to a man like me that he should listen to me? Why then should I not be short of breath to cry out from my straits?

After the way he had spoken in the first round, the three companions had all concluded that Job was really a wicked person who, until his fall, had prospered. Accordingly, they had all directed their replies to the question of the prosperity of the wicked at Job. But, as Job now reminds them, the question he had raised at the start of the second round concerned the general observation that despite their wickedness, evildoers appear to prosper everywhere and at all times. The issue was not Job’s short-temper or his refusal to acquiesce stoically to his suffering; nor were these necessarily indicative of evil-doing on his part. Though he might have been the subject of the first round of the debate, where they had discussed the suffering of the righteous, he was not the topic of the second round, which was concerned with the issue of the general well-being of the wicked