Eliphaz
When believing is wrong. What you believe can be fatal.
Eliphaz continues to bolster his own concerns that Job is hiding something. What we know from the first and second chapter, Job does not know during this time Eliphaz, speaks.
Eliphaz continues to accuse Job and he drives nails into the mind of the one who is his friend.
I can imagine Job silently thinking, are you the friend I thought I knew? What is talking about? I am hurting too bad to defend myself and you address me with words that pierce like venom.
Eliphaz pulls cards from his deck of cards and he thinks he has a winning hand.
Eliphaz uses his own experiences of wrongdoing and he tells Job if I did not get by, who do you think you are? Sometimes we simply need to admit we do not know what we are talking about. Eliphaz knows his truth, but adding or projecting his opinion on Job is unrighteousness. When we talk about what we know, we have very little to say. If using his own testimony was not convincing enough, Eliphaz turns up the organ and he grabs the microphone and leans back, and reminds Job of the art of sowing and reaping. Eliphaz supports his own theory about Job’s condition, he now tries to take God’s Word and smears guilt in the mind of Job. Eliphaz leaves out one thing; he leaves the truth he can show and prove. When we don’t know and proceed to enforce ignorance, we are like customers standing in a line with items in our basket not aware we are in a line ready to make a deadly purchase. I take from this lesson, say only what you know God said and that is getting an understanding of the Word of God. Friend’s don’t let friends drive drunk. Eliphaz is highly intoxicated.
Jesus knew who He was. The mob did not. To find Jesus guilty of crimes that could not be justified is dangerous, destructive, and deadly.
5 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Eliphaz is telling Job to seek God about the wrong he is not admitting.
9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
Now Eliphaz begins to use scripture to support his condemnation of Job.
10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
Now Elizphaz uses the reward of God to show job, if only you will confess, all these blessings will be yours.
20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
Eliphaz uses "we", could he and his other friends have already discussed Job's fate before they arrived?
My Minute Song
Job 5
I came to you as a friend
And it’s always been that way
I never did you wrong
Only kind words I had to say
But now you think I’m unsuitable
And you say the things that hurt
Instead of understanding me
You dig and throw your dirt
But yet, I’m not amiss as you say
To harm me a friend won’t do
So I turn to the living God
My friend who knows the truth
God knows me
And He knows what I do
God knows me
God knows the truth!
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