JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ

JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ (chaps. 6. and 7.).—Job was so grieved with this unmerited criticism, and with his bodily anguish, that he wished God would destroy him. “Oh that it would please God to destroy me, that He would let loose His hand upon me” (ch. 6:9). He could not submit to Eliphaz’ reproof. “Teach me,” said he, “and I will hold my tongue. Cause me to understand wherein I have erred” (ch. 6:24). He further declared that man’s evil day was limited, in that we must all face death at last, and, turning to God, as it were, he complained of the bitterness of his calamities, saying, “My soul chooseth strangling and death rather than my life” (5:15). And “Why, O thou preserver of men, hast thou set me up as a mark against thee?” He knew he was not wicked, and could not realize the object of such chastening.

1917 Christadelphian, 39(electronic ed.), 114.