
Job 15:1-35
15:1-21:34 | These chapters include the second round of speeches between Job and his friends.
15:1-35 | This time, in his second speech, Eliphaz employs one of the oldest strategies in debate: if you cannot win the argument, attack your opponent. Believing that Job’s latest statements revealed his inward corruption, Eliphaz once again indicted his so-called friend.
15:1-6 | Eliphaz deemed Job’s words the product of wind and bombast.
15:7-10 | With God, true knowledge is not necessarily linked to age but to consistent obedience (Ps. 119:99-100). Knowledge and wisdom come from doing what God instructs and discovering that He always knows what is right (Deut. 4:6; 1 Tim. 4:12).
15:20-22 | Retributive justice was not only Eliphaz’s philosophy but that of all three friends. They did not see that while suffering is ultimately the result of original sin, not all suffering is the result of a person’s particular sin.