The friends cannot be expected to recognize their own injustice. As with all those who create scapegoats, they consider their victim to be guilty. Therefore, for them, there is no scapegoat….In Job’s eyes, the three friends are trafficking in human flesh. They seem honorable and they are honorable from their own perspective, that of the religious system …
— Rene Girard, Job: The Victim of His People, 31, 79
