CHALLENGE . To ‘challenge’ in the language of AV [Note: Authorized Version.] is to claim , as in Golding’s tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of Calvin’s Job , p. 578; ‘Iob neuer went about to challenge such perfection, as to have no sinne in him.’ The word occurs in Exodus 22:9 , in the heading of Isaiah 45 ‘By his omnipotency he challengeth obedience;’ and in Job 3:5 AVm [Note: Authorized Version margin.] .