Today’s passage: Job 15
Helpful thoughts:
- Today begins round two, the responses and second attempts of these three friends of Job.
- Eliphaz believes Job is full of hot air (Verse 2) and pridefully absorbed with himself (Verse 27).
- Unlike in previous attempts, there is no hope offered here to Job. There is no call to repentance, only the expectation of judgment.
- Eliphaz now regards Job as a man who has done away with the fear of God and as a wicked man who has finally begun to get what he deserves.
Questions to consider:
- What is Eliphaz asking in verse 8? What does the reader get to do in the first two chapters of this book? Did Eliphaz know what we know when he asked this question?
- What is the problem of Eliphaz’s question in verse 9? Are these three friends right simply because they are more in number? What method of argument is Eliphaz using now to try and convince Job?
- Why do you think these men seem to be getting frustrated in their efforts? What do they think they know? What might we be learning about the things we think we know and how could that help us to minister to people in a better way?