Job 4-7

This was a passage that took me 20 minutes to read. It begins with Eliphaz's rebuke of Job's curse on his life. It seems to me that Eliphaz can justify Job's suffering; this is God's punishment for Job's hidden sin. Yet Adonai God himself call's Job upright (1:8, 2:3). Eliphaz is ignorant of the spiritual battle raging in heaven over Job and his godly life. Job's responce in chapters 6 and 7 swings between a counter to Eliphaz and a plea to God. Job's request; "God has taken virtuallly all else, He should take my life as well." Job's pure life appears as a facade to his friends. Their theology doesn't allow God to permit injustice to be visited on the upright. We, also, need to be aware of where our theology limits God.
Stuart