Job
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Elihu is a controversial character is the book of Job. Some people believe he speaks the truth, but is that what the Bible really says?
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We are starting the third round of speeches by Job’s friends with Job’s responses. The sign of which path, righteousness or wickedness, a person is on is not the hardship they face, but the choices they make.
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So far we have covered the narrative prologue that tells about Job’s sudden hardship and his friend’s journey to comfort him. Job give a poetic lament over his pain and calamity. Then each of Jobs friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite each give a speech and Job replies to each.
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We now start the second round of peaches by Job’s friends. The tricky thing about Jon’s friends again is that they are not completely wrong. Much of what they say is true about how the world works. The main place in which they are wrong is that they assume all suffering is caused by the
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This whole speech is Job’s response to Eliphaz. It is quite long right after he has just been called long-winded. At this point, I have often stopped reading the poetry section of this book and have skipped ahead to the narrative section to find out what happens to Job. This time, I am going to
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In the previous chapters we learned about Job’s losses and illness. According to the narrator of the book of Job, we are told that he is righteous and faultless. We are expected to trust that the narrator is reliable and honest, but Job’s friend, Eliphaz has cast doubt on Job’s godly character and response to…
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At this point in the book of Job we have seen that Job was a righteous man who lost everything. Job then laments the day he was born, but his friend, Eliphaz, responses in critiquing Job’s emotional response. Eliphaz asserts that if Job just repent of some vague sin or foolishness, God would then fix
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Job has lost everything and has cursed the day of his birth to his three friends. Eliphaz is the first of Job’s friends to speak. Even though we know that Job’s friends become more and more his adversaries, they start out as friends who are there to comfort and speak the truth. Had they not
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The book of Job in the Bible has always fascinated me. Very few books of the Bible have such a wide and extremely varied interpretation among both pastors and church members. I have heard people accuse Job of pride and others accuse him of various sins. Most people read the narrative sections at the beginning
