Job 15:1-3, 5, Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: “Should a wise man answer with EMPTY KNOWLEDGE… Should he reason with UNPROFITABLE TALK, Or by SPEECHES WITH WHICH HE CAN DO NO GOOD?… YOUR OWN MOUTH CONDEMNS YOU, AND NOT I; YES, YOUR OWN LIPS TESTIFY AGAINST YOU.
JOB, YOUR NOT CONVINCING ANYONE; STOP WITH THIS USELESS TALK! ADMIT YOUR SIN!
Job 15:11, ARE THE CONSOLATIONS OF GOD TOO SMALL FOR YOU, AND THE WORD SPOKEN GENTLY WITH YOU?
Job consider, the LORD has taken everything from you, AND HE HAS SENT US TO YOU, THAT WE MAY COUNCIL YOU WITH GENTLE WORDS? Eliphaz believe that they, his friends, were the consolation of GOD! Wow!
Isa 5:21, WOE TO THOSE WHO ARE WISE IN THEIR OWN EYES, AND PRUDENT IN THEIR OWN SIGHT!
Job 15:14-16, “WHAT IS MAN, THAT HE COULD BE PURE? … If God puts no trust in His saints, And the heavens are not pure in His sight, HOW MUCH LESS MAN, WHO IS ABOMINABLE AND FILTHY, WHO DRINKS INIQUITY LIKE WATER!
Job never said that he was perfect, he admitted to his iniquities as a young man
Job 13:26, For You write bitter things against me, AND MAKE ME INHERIT THE INIQUITIES OF MY YOUTH.
Eliphaz was speaking truth, it just didn’t apply to Job! LIKE A THIRSTY MAN DRINKING WATER, WE DRINK INIQUITY, SIN, AS IF WE WERE DEPENDANT ON IT TO SURVIVE! WOW!
Rom 3:23, FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD,
Psa 130:3-4, IF YOU, LORD, SHOULD MARK INIQUITIES, O LORD, WHO COULD STAND? BUT THERE IS FORGIVENESS WITH YOU, THAT YOU MAY BE FEARED.
WE ALL DO FOOLISH THINGS, AND NO ONE IS RIGHTEOUS BEFORE GOD! BUT IN HIM WE FIND FORGIVENESS!
Psa 25:11, For Your name’s sake, O LORD, PARDON MY INIQUITY, FOR IT IS GREAT.