Today’s passage: Job 16
Helpful thoughts:
- Job responds to Eliphaz’s harsh rebuke and condemnation.
- Job’s friends had come to bring him comfort and they have failed. He asks them to consider how they would feel if they were in his place, how that would impact their words.
- Because his friends have turned against him, he now hopes in a heavenly witness alone to plead his case before God (Verses 19-20).
Questions to consider:
- How does Job now view the purpose of his friends’ presence (Verse 7)?
- How does Job’s description of himself differ from Eliphaz’s description in 15:25-27? Is Job believing he is going to rise above and conquer to show everyone he was right or is he aware of his condition before God (Verse 15)?
- Even if Eliphaz believed Job was wicked and deserved this, how could Job’s response have changed his approach? Who is Job trying to talk to and give his focus to by the end of the chapter? How could Eliphaz have turned his attention there as well?