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Originally Posted by OBW
God answered those questions by saying that Job asked the questions from a position of ignorance. And he asked it as if he should be able to demand a satisfactory answer within his understanding. But God asserts that he (Job) does not have the standing to understand. He does not have the counsel to ordain the very fabric of the universe. He does not have the power to make it so. Yet he challenges the only one who does as if a created being has the standing to challenge the creator over how things were made.
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42:7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
What is it that Eliphaz and the two friends spoke that kindled God’s wrath?
Zophar, one of the friends --
11:7 Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
11:8 It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
11:9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
This is what OBW said – “God answered those questions by saying that Job asked the questions from a position of ignorance.”
And OBW – “But God asserts that he (Job) does not have the standing to understand.”
Eliphaz says “Will He enter with thee into judgment?”
This is what OBW said -- “Yet he challenges the only one who does as if a created being has the standing to challenge the creator over how things were made.”
Eliphaz says 5:17 “Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:”
This is what OBW said -- the book of Job is about “God putting Job in his place”