July 2, 2025, Job 15:1-35
Eliphaz
Accuses: Job Does Not Fear God
15 Then Eliphaz
the Temanite answered and said:
2 “Should a
wise man answer with windy knowledge,
and fill
his belly with the east wind?
3 Should he argue in unprofitable talk,
or in
words with which he can do no good?
4 But you are doing away with the fear of God
and
hindering meditation before God.
5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
and you
choose the tongue of the crafty.
6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
your own
lips testify against you.
7 “Are you
the first man who was born?
Or were
you brought forth before the hills?
8 Have you listened in the council of God?
And do
you limit wisdom to yourself?
9 What do you know that we do not know?
What do
you understand that is not clear to us?
10 Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,
older
than your father.
11 Are the comforts of God too small for you,
or the
word that deals gently with you?
12 Why does your heart carry you away,
and why
do your eyes flash,
13 that you turn your spirit against God
and
bring such words out of your mouth?
14 What is man, that he can be pure?
Or he
who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
15 Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones,
and the
heavens are not pure in his sight;
16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,
a man
who drinks injustice like water!
17 “I will
show you; hear me,
and what
I have seen I will declare
18 (what wise men have told,
without
hiding it from their fathers,
19 to whom alone the land was given,
and
no stranger passed among them).
20 The wicked man writhes in pain all his days,
through
all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
21 Dreadful sounds are in his ears;
in prosperity
the destroyer will come upon him.
22 He does not believe that he will return out of
darkness,
and he
is marked for the sword.
23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is
it?’
He knows
that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
24 distress and anguish terrify him;
they prevail
against him, like a king ready for battle.
25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God
and
defies the Almighty,
26 running stubbornly against him
with a
thickly bossed shield;
27 because he has covered his face with his fat
and
gathered fat upon his waist
28 and has lived in desolate cities,
in
houses that none should inhabit,
which
were ready to become heaps of ruins;
29 he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure,
nor will
his possessions spread over the earth;
30 he will not depart from darkness;
the
flame will dry up his shoots,
and
by the breath of his mouth he will depart.
31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving
himself,
for
emptiness will be his payment.
32 It will be paid in full before his time,
and his
branch will not be green.
33 He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine,
and cast
off his blossom like the olive tree.
34 For the company of the godless is barren,
and fire
consumes the tents of bribery.
35 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil,
and
their womb prepares deceit.”
These verses share Job’s deep sorrow, expresses
how his friends offer no comfort to him and shows longing for the day he will
be with Christ and suffer no more.
Life is full of challenges in this dark, sinful
world. I pray that you are in fellowship with believers that can
stand in the gap with you, encourage you, pray for you and comfort
you. The Bible shares not to neglect fellowship with other
believers. Where are you in relationship with Christ and
fellow believers? Please do not neglect fellowship and worship with
a group of Bible believing, truth seeking Christians.
Robin Adams
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