Job 5:2-4, FOR WRATH KILLS A FOOLISH MAN, And envy slays a simple one. I HAVE SEEN THE FOOLISH TAKING ROOT… HIS SONS ARE FAR FROM SAFETY, THEY ARE CRUSHED IN THE GATE, AND THERE IS NO DELIVERER.
An Indirect comment to Job calling him foolish! Eliphaz is basically saying “I HAVE SEEN THE FOOLISH AND THEIR SONS PERISH, AND YOUR ONE OF THEM!”
Job 5:6-7, FOR AFFLICTION DOES NOT COME FROM THE DUST, NOR DOES TROUBLE SPRING FROM THE GROUND; YET MAN IS BORN TO TROUBLE, As the sparks fly upward.
“Come-on Job, admit what you have done for affliction is the result of what you have sown!”
Gal 6:7, Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; FOR WHATEVER A MAN SOWS, THAT HE WILL ALSO REAP.
Eliphaz is speaking truth, yet it doesn’t apply to Job! We would have thought the same if we didn’t have the in-sight of Chapter’s 1 and 2.
Job 5:8, “BUT AS FOR ME, I WOULD SEEK GOD, AND TO GOD I WOULD COMMIT MY CAUSE—
JOB THIS IS HOW I DO IT! I SEEK THE LORD MAYBE YOU SHOULD ALSO? AGAIN, SAID IN IGNORANCE OF THE SITUATION!
Job 5:17-18, “BEHOLD, HAPPY IS THE MAN WHOM GOD CORRECTS; THEREFORE DO NOT DESPISE THE CHASTENING OF THE ALMIGHTY. FOR HE BRUISES, BUT HE BINDS UP; HE WOUNDS, BUT HIS HANDS MAKE WHOLE.
Eliphaz is his mind, is teaching Job about GOD! JOB, THE LORD IS CORRECTING YOUR SINFUL WAYS! LISTEN TO HIM; DON’T TURN YOUR BACK TO THE LORD!”
IT’S TRUE, THE LORD CORRECTS THOSE HE LOVES “PRO 3:11-12”. ELIPHAZ IS A WISE MAN GIVING WISE COUNCIL, YET DONE IN IGNORANCE OF THE SITUATION!
SOMETIMES THE BEST WE CAN DO IS JUST LISTEN,
Jas 1:19, SO THEN, MY BELOVED BRETHREN, LET EVERY MAN BE SWIFT TO HEAR, SLOW TO SPEAK, SLOW TO WRATH;