Isn't Job the one who says "Miserable comforters are ye all." ? Because none of his friends can comfort him in his grief and misery, because none of them will accept his righteousness and the undeservedness of his misfortune, which cannot be called injustice because God is allowing it. Seems like the stuck inability to communicate how one feels or to say anything of use at a hard time, in the poem covered by an almost ritualized Bible reading, because there are no other words than the scripture.

I love Clifton. Good post.