Job 5
Share
This resource is exclusive for PLUS Members
Upgrade now and receive:
- Ad-Free Experience: Enjoy uninterrupted access.
- Exclusive Commentaries: Dive deeper with in-depth insights.
- Advanced Study Tools: Powerful search and comparison features.
- Premium Guides & Articles: Unlock for a more comprehensive study.
17–22 Here Eliphaz assures Job that he will be blessed if he will simply accept the discipline of God (verse 17). DISCIPLINE is only temporary; whenever God wounds, He also binds up23 (see Hosea 6:1–2). The man who accepts God's discipline will always be rescued.
In the thinking of Eliphaz (and his two colleagues) there were no exceptions; everything was “always.” Things were “black and white,” with no gray. Real life, however, is more complicated.
23–26 In these verses, Eliphaz continues to cite the blessings that come to the man who allows God to correct him (verse 17). He will have a COVENANT not only with God but also with stones and wild animals (verse 23). The “stones” and “animals” will be at peace with such a man and not interfere with his crops. Such a man will experience the blessings of prosperity, a large family, and a full life (verses 24–26).
27 Then, in a proud and insensitive manner, Eliphaz tells Job to apply these truths to himself—to confess his sins and appeal to God for mercy. Job would have been happy to do so; but there was one problem: he didn't believe that the calamities that had befallen him were the result of sin. And we, the readers, know that Job was right!