One Last Blast [Job 15]

Eliphaz was not happy that Job had dismissed his argument.  He felt he had seen more of life than Job and was much wiser.  It really bugged him that Job felt he was close to the Almighty.  He felt that such a claim did “away with reverence and hinder(ed) meditation before God.” V. 4

⁴"Indeed, you do away with reverence
         And hinder meditation before God.
    ⁵"For your guilt teaches your mouth,
         And you choose the language of the crafty.
    ⁶"Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
         And your own lips testify against you.
    ⁷"Were you the first man to be born,
         Or were you brought forth before the hills?
    ⁸"Do you hear the secret counsel of God,
         And limit wisdom to yourself?
    ⁹"What do you know that we do not know?
         What do you understand that we do not?
    ¹⁰"Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,
         Older than your father.
    ¹¹"Are the consolations of God too small for you,
         Even the word spoken gently with you?

What was really on the line was Job’s theology.  How dare Job believe that God would speak to him.  The rest of  Eliphaz's discourse was all about how man just falls into a course of life and God does not involve Himself with man’s personal stuff.  Eiliphaz is miffed because he thinks he gave God’s consolations and that Job is being arrogant not to receive them.  Will Job give in to the gray-haired wisdom card being waved?  Stay tuned in and see.

John 10:26-28:

²⁶"But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep.

 ²⁷"My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;

 ²⁸and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.