The Restoration of a Blind and Deaf Servant, II: After Job and his “friends” have spent chapter after chapter arguing with God and with each other as to the meaning of the calamities that have come to Job, God appears and puts Job in his place at some length (Job 38:1–40:2). Job submits, and might have expected this was the end of the story. Instead, as one imagines Job’s groan, God starts again (Job 40:6). There is a parallel dynamic in the new beginning here at Isaiah 43:22. It seems that 42:18–43:21 reached a fine climax with Jacob-Israel on its way home through the wilderness and about to fulfill its destiny in the praise of Yahweh. But with 43:22–28 Yahweh starts again and goes through a parallel critique to that of 42:18–25. Fortunately, 44:1–5 then also corresponds to 43:1–7. With 4…