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Job 4:1–6, “Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?”
Even though Job’s friends waited for seven days before they said anything to him, they had come to speak to him. When we someone else suffering there is always a temptation to think that he deserves what he is getting. After all, if such things can happen to good men they maybe it will happen to me. Eliphaz, the first speaker explained to Job that he had helped many other people when they were experiencing difficulties and had told them how to survive the hard times. However, now that he was in trouble and it was time for him to suffer he didn’t seem to have to strength to cope with his own circumstances. He suggested that his fear of trouble really came from himself and not from his outward circumstances.
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