Job 15:1-35

What a busy day!  With graduations and a host of things, I am afraid I might not be able to post.  I have read the selection and am working on it, but it might not be up until later today or tomorrow (hopefully today, if sharing the internet works out).  Just FYI.

Updated:
Graduation weekend is a doozy when you're a youth sponsor with twenty some kids in the church graduating.  I didn't make it to all of them, not even close.  But not for lack of trying.

Here are some observations I made about Eliphaz's rejoinder to Job: 

• He's pretty teed-off with Job's response, accusing him of undermining faith and respect for God, for "hindering meditation" before him
• He basically thinks Job is a fool, asking him if he was the first to be born, the one with the most experience, which apparently, from Eliphaz's sarcasm, even between these friends Job is not.
• He delivers a warning to Job: straighten up or even worse will come upon you.  His long soliloquy basically entails the life of a man who insists upon pursuing wicked: living amongst ruins, searching hopelessly for food, his hand against the Almighty and the Almighty turned against him.  The wicked man will be paid for his deeds, and will be stripped away like the unfruitful branches of the vine.

I find it interesting that Eliphaz accuses Job of being windy with contempt, and yet Eliphaz is windy himself. He doesn't really add to the conversation, except to continue to wax on about the fate of the wicked (and to rather pointedly intimate that Job will share this fate).  He says the same things over and over again and then is offended when Job stands up for himself.  His description of a wicked man sounds alarmingly like a description of Job: he would school Job in wisdom, but this man himself lacks wisdom and tact.  As Proverbs says, a wise man would turn away wrath, but Eliphaz words are only going to make Job more angry.

Tomorrow's Reading: Job 16:1-17:16