Job
6 & 7 – Job Answers Eliphaz
Job
begins to explain how terrible his grief is. He tells Eliphaz that he needs to
understand what Job’s question was because Eliphaz missed the point altogether.
Job tells him that he is crying out and Eliphaz can see his misery but shows no
pity at all. He says he wouldn’t be crying out if nothing was hurting him. He
goes as far as to say that he wishes God would destroy him, get rid of him, let
loose His hand and cut him off. He wants to die. He says he had nothing to live
for and he is tired and can’t stand any more. He tells Eliphaz that he should
have shown pity and sympathized with him, but he didn’t. He said their sympathy
was like an oasis in the desert, but it was only a mirage. He said they are
like a pool that is covered with ice and snow. It is deceitful.
He
told them if they had something useful to say, he will listen because he is
teachable. What they had said already was good, but it didn’t touch Job’s case
at all.
These
three men didn’t understand the true situation, and all three would conclude
that Job had sinned and won’t confess the truth. Since he won’t confess his
secret sin, he is being judged.
Chapter
7
Job
is a very sick man, and his friends seem to ignore that. It has been said that
a friend is one who knows you and still loves you. These friends really don’t
know Job.
Job
senses that he is being tried, but he hasn’t any notion what is really behind
all of this. He admits that he has sinned, but he says he is getting more than
he deserves.
When
a man’s integrity is broken down, he becomes an easy mark for Satan. This is
the thing that happens to many people today who attempts to fight life alone.
He begins to hit the bottle or drops into sin. Satan has a chance to attack him
because the man’s integrity has broken down. This is the situation with Job.
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J.
Vernon McGee Commentary and New King James Bible.
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