NOTES for Job 23:1-24:25
Job cries out to God, and this is not empty rhetoric: his hope in the Creator rests on firm faith. Therefore Job is ready to appear before God as the supreme and just arbiter, so that he may present the arguments in his defense—the very arguments that his accusers refuse to consider.
Then Job depicts in great detail the lawlessness that reigns in the world. It may seem that Job contradicts himself if he can express hope in supreme justice and at the same time speak of injustices committed before God's face (from out of the city men groan, and the soul of the wounded cries out, yet God charges no one with wrong). Indeed, while hoping that in the end everyone will have to answer before God for lawlessness, Job now seems unable to find Him in a world full of evil.
Yet being unable to see God is not the same as denying Him. Job continues to live in hope of meeting Him. Job's troubled soul is more capable of hearing Him than his accusers, who utter outwardly correct words.