February 25, 2026
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Reading along with us in Job & Hebrews? Here’s today’s reading:
Job 15 (NIV)
Eliphaz
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2“Would a wise person answer with empty notions
or fill their belly with the hot east wind?
3 Would they argue with useless words,
with speeches that have no value?……Continue Reading
Next: Job 16
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Back: Hebrews 12
In so many words Eliphaz questions Job’s wisdom and wonders why he would say what he has to vindicate himself. Because he is confident that Jobs has done something wrong because that is the pattern that he and others have seen. It is the evil who are punished and have all sorts of trouble in their lives. But with many rules there are exceptions, and Job is one of them. His friends just cannot see it.
If Job is “wicked” as he is accused, and his writing is in the Bible, then I’m in some serious trouble. But thank you Lord Jesus!!!
It is certainly hard to read the accounts of Job’s friends responding so harshly to him because we know the backstory. However, I am sure in the same position we might all be thinking something had to have happened for this extent of pain to fall on him. If nothing else this whole book is a reminder for us to be softer and kinder, to listen and not judge a book by the cover, and to seek God FIRST in all things as He would have given these friends far better direction to assist their friend for sure!
Job 15
It must have added salt to the wounds for Job’s friends to accuse him this way. His faith was certainly challenged!
Job’s “friend” accuses him of being sinful, crafty, rageful and condemning. Eliphaz builds himself up, likening himself to the wise, while at the same time tearing Job down, equating him with the wicked. Let us not counsel our friends in this manner. “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.” Ephesians 4:29. And this includes speaking the truth in love, even when disciplining a person who is engaged in wrongful activity.
Job 15. Again his friend Eliphaz is telling Job that he is arrogant and he is hiding sin and that is why all of these terrible things are happening to him and he tells Job his own words are condemning him, He says only the wicked suffer!
Job 15
Job 15