Job 4:1, 3-4, Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: … SURELY YOU HAVE INSTRUCTED MANY, And YOU HAVE STRENGTHENED WEAK HANDS. YOUR WORDS HAVE UPHELD HIM WHO WAS STUMBLING, And YOU HAVE STRENGTHENED THE FEEBLE KNEES;.
Job was known as a Godly man WHOM MANY WENT TO IN TIMES OF TROUBLE; for Godly wisdom, for his generosity and strength!
Job 4-5-6, BUT NOW IT COMES UPON YOU, AND YOU ARE WEARY; IT TOUCHES YOU, AND YOU ARE TROUBLED. IS NOT YOUR REVERENCE YOUR CONFIDENCE? AND THE INTEGRITY OF YOUR WAYS YOUR HOPE?
Eliphaz, basically said — “DO YOU PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH? HAVE YOU LOST YOUR FAITH, HAVE YOU LOST YOUR CONFIDENCE IN GOD? WHERE IS YOUR STRENGTH?” —
Sometimes the best thing to do is just be there for your friend! Saying nothing, by your presence showing that your grieving his them Job 2:13! Eliphaz tried to comfort him, but this was an indirect attack on Job!
Job 4:17-19, ‘CAN A MORTAL BE MORE RIGHTEOUS THAN GOD? CAN A MAN BE MORE PURE THAN HIS MAKER? If He puts no trust in His servants, If He charges His angels with error, HOW MUCH MORE THOSE WHO DWELL IN HOUSES OF CLAY, WHOSE FOUNDATION IS IN THE DUST…
IT’S TRUE, ALL MEN SIN, ALL HAVE FALLEN SHORT YET, what Eliphaz is saying here is “JOB WE ALL SIN, ADMIT WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO DESERVE THIS FROM GOD?”
Eph 4:29, Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
THE LORD TEACHES, THOSE THAT FOLLOW HIM, HIS WAY NOT MAN’S WAY! EDIFY, NOT TEAR DOWN; LOVE, NOT TO ATTACK FOR THAT IS MANS WAY! BY BEING IN HIS WORD DAILY GIVES WISDOM TO THE READER!
Isa 50:4, “THE LORD GOD HAS GIVEN ME THE TONGUE OF THE LEARNED, THAT I SHOULD KNOW HOW TO SPEAK A WORD IN SEASON TO HIM WHO IS WEARY. HE AWAKENS ME MORNING BY MORNING, HE AWAKENS MY EAR TO HEAR AS THE LEARNED.