Within the book of Job, the interlocutors (Job, the friends, and Yahweh) seem to largely ignore one another's arguments within their dialogical discourse. This observation leads some to propose that the dialogue lacks conceptual coherence. I argue that the interlocutors tangentially attend to previously stated points-of-view and attempt to persuade their counterparts through the employment of metaphor. I use the theoretical approach of Conceptual Metaphor Theory to assess metaphorical expressions that evoke two distinct conceptual domains, the target domain SPEECH and the source domain ANIMALS. Beyond explaining the individual metaphorical expressions, I show how SPEECH metaphors cohere with one another throughout the dialogue, most perceptibly in the expressions of WORDS ARE WIND. The nature of Job's speech, whether it is acceptable or dangerous, is a regular topic for Job and his friends. Their disagreements are apparent in my comparison of their SPEECH metaphors. ANIMAL metaphors also cohere, particularly perceptible in the JOB IS A PREDATORY ANIMAL metaphor. In these cases, the dialogue demonstrates intentional picking-up on previously stated arguments. By surveying the dialogue for a target domain (SPEECH) and a source domain (ANIMALS), I show that both are significant for evaluating the discourse. The survey of a target provides insight into the overt topic of their debate, the worth of words in this case. The survey of a source provides a means for evaluating the speakers' assumptions, since metaphorical construal is grounded in shared source knowledge. I also argue that the animal images in the divine speeches are not metaphorical, in spite of recent scholarly interpretation that reads them as such. Rather, Yahweh presents the wild animals as a Sage in order to question the negative status of wild animals that Job and his friends assume in their significations of PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS. This is especially apparent in Yahweh's strophes on the lion and the wild donkey, both of which appear multiple times in the metaphorical expressions of Job and his friends. The interlocutors use metaphorical elaboration, extension, and questioning in their competing construals of the world and Job's suffering. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]