Eliphaz Speaks: His First Words of Counsel to Job - a podcast by Quidnessett Baptist Church

A. Good Counsel to the Sufferer
1. His kindness: Job 4:1-2, 2 Tim. 2:24
2. His encouraging affirmation: Job 4:3-4, Philemon 4-7
3. His reminder of life’s realities
– Man is hopelessly flawed before God: Job 4:17-21, Job 9:2, Job 14:4, Job 15:14, Job 25:4
– Man is destined to much sorrow and trouble in this life: Job 5:6-7, John 16:33, Acts 14:21-22
4. His appeal to submit to God: Job 5:8, James 4:7-8
B. Eliphaz: The Bad Counsel to the Sufferer
1. His accusation of hypocrisy: Job 4:5-6, Job 5:1-7
2. His assumption Job’s suffering results from sin: Job 4:7-11, John 9:1-3, Acts 28:1-5
3. His reliance upon individual special revelation: Job 4:12-16, 2 Cor. 12:1-7
C. Truth Affirmed, Truth Learned about our God
1. God’s Immanence (near) and transcendence (otherness): Job 5:8-9, Isaiah 66:1-2
2. God’s loving provision and care: Job 5:10; 15-16, Isaiah 9:6
3. God’s workings of providence: Job 5:12-14, Luke 1:51-53
4. God’s paternal discipline: Job 5:17-18, Prov. 3:12, Heb. 12:5-6
5. God’s delivering grace: Job 5:19-27, Psalm 54

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