Job’s friend Zophar speaks and is aggressive in his condemning Job. What is striking is that unless the context of Zophar’s speech is seen, some of what he says is quite quotable and true. How are we to understand the difference, for example, between Zophar’s extolling the depths of God and that of the apostles?…
We continue looking at the speech of Eliphaz. What we find is a man who thinks that he can help Job with all his wisdom, which is nothing but a worldly wisdom. Yet his words are quite empty as they are not true reflections of either reality or the situation and character of Job himself.…
We now look at the first speech of Eliphaz the Temanite, the oldest of Job’s friends. He starts by being kind and seemingly acknowledging Job’s good deeds. But his speech begins to take a turn where he turns accusatory and speaks of a strange and dark vision he has had. Martyn Owens – Job
God’s response to Job furnishes a crushing indictment of human arrogance and declares boldly how God’s thoughts are higher than ours. But for the Christian this is a sweet thing – in our poverty his riches gleam all the more brightly to our eyes, in our foolishness his wisdom leaves us in awe, and in…