"... Job describes his condition. “My flesh is clothed in worms / my skin coagulates and runs” (7:5). Job 16:7–17 is rich in embodied imagery: being seized or compressed (16:8), being torn (16:9) by an enemy, perhaps the deity himself. Again, language is framed in first-person terms: “my skin,” “compressed me,” “he has gnashed against me with his teeth” (16:9). God or an unnamed enemy’s body, pictured as that of a wild beast, lacerates Job. In verse 10, the enemy, now referred to in the plural, strikes Job’s (“my”) cheeks, an image common in lament literature. (For example, Lamentations 3:30 and Isaiah 50:6. On references to the impaired or punished body and lament literature, see Amy Erikson, “‘Without My Flesh I Will See God’: Job’s Rhetoric of the Body,” Journal of Biblical Literature 132 (2013): 303, and see, for example, Psalms 6:7 and 31:10–11) The reference to body parts is especially striking in Job’s speeches ..."