Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Eliphaz Speaks: Truth Affirmed, Truth Learned about our God

A. Eliphaz: Good Counsel to the Sufferer

1. His kindness: Job 4:1-2

2. His encouraging affirmation: Job 4:3-4

3. His reminder of life’s realities: Job 4:17-21

4. His appeal to submit to God: Job 5:8

B. Eliphaz: The Bad Counsel to the Sufferer

1. His accusation of hypocrisy: Job 4:5-6

2. His assumption Job’s suffering results from sin: Job 4:7-11

3. His reliance upon individual special revelation: Job 4:12-16

C. Truth Affirmed, Truth Learned about our God

1. God’s Immanence (near) and transcendence (otherness)

– His immanence (nearness, a God willing to be sought, known): Job 5:8, Gen. 3:8-9, Is. 65:1, Jer. 29:13, Luke 19:10

– His transcendence or otherness, not like us: Ps. 50:21, Ps. 77:13, Is. 46:8-11, Micah 7:18, Is. 66:1-2

2. God’s loving provision and care: Job 5:10; 15-16, Matt. 5:43-45, Luke 4:18-21

3. God’s workings of providence: Job 5:12-14, 1 Cor. 3:19, Luke 1:51-53

4. God’s paternal discipline: Job 5:17-18, Prov. 3:12, Heb. 12:5-6, John 15:2

5. God’s delivering grace: Job 5:19-27, 2 Cor. 1:8-10