Day 022 - Job 4-7

After going through some suffering myself over the past few days, here we go with the first bit of dialogue between Job and his fried Eliphaz. I can tell at this stage that this is going to be a tricky book to navigate through as it contains lots of statements about God and people and not all of them will be true.

I don't really know what to make of Eliphaz's first statement as most of it seems to be his own testimony of things that he's seen and most of it doesn't seem to bear on Job's situation. What he seems to believe is that anyone who is truly righteous will not suffer in the way that Job is. He does then ask the question as to whether anyone can be righteous in God's sight and with his talk of imperfect angels it looks unlikely. Eliphaz advises Job to stop worrying and cry out to God by presenting his case.

Job doesn't respond directly to this, but again cries out to God and rails against him. This time Job goes further than the last by blaming God for his pain and future suffering. He feels that his prayers are unanswered and that he would rather die (or maybe he's praying for death?). He does then have a go at his friends who he says have accused him and again asserts that he is in the right with God.

Job list of questions is a pertinent one, but there is no immediate answer as God is yet to speak in response to him.