I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
Job's calling out to his servant met with silence, so that he was reduced to pleading with his own mouth, and this shows how utter his abandonment had become. That refusal to answer was one wound within a wider anguish in which he felt forsaken both by heaven and by earth. Even under that sense of being forsaken on every side, he still held fast to his faith in God and to his integrity.
Job's calling out to his servant met with silence, so that he was reduced to pleading with his own mouth, and this shows how utter his abandonment had become. That refusal to answer was one wound within a wider anguish in which he felt forsaken both by heaven and by earth. Even under that sense of being forsaken on every side, he still held fast to his faith in God and to his integrity.