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What is the main problem in the Book of Job?
The book’s theme is the eternal problem of unmerited suffering, and it is named after its central character, Job, who attempts to understand the sufferings that engulf him.
What problems did Job have in the Bible?
This time, Job is afflicted with horrible skin sores. His wife encourages him to curse God and to give up and die, but Job refuses, struggling to accept his circumstances. Three of Job’s friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, come to visit him, sitting with Job in silence for seven days out of respect for his mourning.
Why does Eliphaz say that Job is suffering?
He continues to press, telling Job that his sin is the reason for his affliction, that God is disciplining him because of his sin. It was common in Job’s time to believe that any affliction, from migraines to body-covering boils like Job, were caused by personal sin or the sin of the previous generation.
What did Job say in the end?
Two speeches by God In Job 42:1–6, Job makes his final response, confessing God’s power and his own lack of knowledge “of things beyond me which I did not know”. Previously he has only heard, but now his eyes have seen God, and therefore, he declares, “I retract and repent in dust and ashes”.
What did Eliphaz say wrong?
Eliphaz appears mild and modest. In his first reply to Job’s complaints, he argues that those who are truly good are never entirely forsaken by Providence, but that punishment may justly be inflicted for secret sins. He denies that any man is innocent and censures Job for asserting his freedom from guilt.
What is Eliphaz saying in Job 15?
Eliphaz is back on the scene. He says that that Job is undermining God by questioning his ways, which are both unknowable and infinitely powerful. That’s right: Job. And here comes one of the most famous phrases in the Bible: “Your own lips testify against you” (15:6).
How did Job respond to his suffering?
At the end of God’s invitations to dialogue, Job comes up short in his first response: Then Job answered the Lord and said,“Behold, I am insignificant; what can I reply to You? I lay my hand on my mouth. Job never does find out why he suffered and neither does the reader.