April 11 & 12, 2026
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Reading along with us in Job? Here’s today’s reading:
Job 22 (NIV)
Eliphaz
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2“Can a man be of benefit to God?
Can even a wise person benefit him?
3 What pleasure would it give the Almighty if you were righteous?
What would he gain if your ways were blameless?…..Continue Reading
Eliphaz makes some strong accusations against Job for not helping the needy and vulnerable and doing evil against them. We can presume these things are not true, because God would not have talked in good terms about Job if he had done these things and God would have addressed him with them in the end. But we need to be careful that we take care of the poor and the vulnerable around us and find the blessings Eliphaz alludes to in the end of these chapter. Because God is certainly One to reward those who are faithful to Him.
Job 22
Job 22
Job 22
Folks, been away for a spell, studying the harrowing of hell, some difficult passages in Peter, and concluding what all the whole Bible says on these matters. Done with it.
Job’s back and forth with his friends baffles me to no end! Eliphaz, is there any benefit to God that you’re righteous, verse 3, then twenty verses later, compels Job to repent!
Benevolence to the poor is as Jesus said, they’ll always be with you. I don’t pass money to those on the corners, sensing money isn’t their problem, rather, I support my local church. I have learned LHCC knows better how to wisely feed the poor in NK. It’s all God’s money.
That may sound cold, insensitive, but that’s where I am comfortable with God’s plan locally.
I welcome alternate viewpoints, gordy
It is unfortunate that we have to beware of giving money to people due to all those who misuse or abuse funds that are given to them. We always evaluate the legitimacy of gifts that we give people. So thanks for supporting our efforts to do so.
Job 22
Eliphaz thinks the crux of Job’s problem is pride. Accusing Job of thinking that he actually was above experiencing any troubles because he was so good. He also remarked that a righteous man would be rejoicing in these troubles. Now I know we can find contentment wherever we are, but I would be hard pressed to think even Eliphaz would be singing and dancing if the shoe was on the other foot! Instead he makes terrible accusations of Job’s care and treatment of others without any proof or evidennce that he did any of that. But Eliphaz does offer some great advice for Job to seek God and find repentance but this was assuming that the problem was sin in Job’s life, Unfortunately, we know that this assumption was wrong, and therefore the advice in this case was wrong.
The book of Job is so hard. Unless you know the backstory of Jobs innocence you might agree with his friends. We know job didn’t do all these things but these are his friends, did they witness these events? Or are they jumping to conclusions because of his wealth? Or just because of his suffering? There is much to learn about how we judge people who are suffering, whether they “deserve it” or not.