Study
2 From the Book of Job is: Job 4 and 5. Eliphaz's first speech
The
First Cycle of Speeches 4 – 14)
The
three friends, seeing Job's suffering, assume his guilt, and with
mounting zeal urge him to repent. At first, Job is only grieve and
hurt by this lack of understanding, but soon becomes irritated and
angry. He wants God to explain Himself, and is acutely miserable.
- 4: 1-11. According to Eliphaz, what was Job forgetting?
- 4:12 – 5: 7. What did Eliphaz learn from his vision?
- 5:8-27. What is his view of Job, or God, and of divine chastening?
Notes
- 5:2. 'Vexation: an impatient querulous or presumptuous attitude.
- 5:6-7. Troubles in life come as sparks come, from somebody's actions. There must be a human cause. Cf. 4:8.
- 5:27. An appeal to scholarly research to buttress his orthodoxy.
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