Eliphaz is the first one of Job’s friends to speak. His willingness to sit with Job for days in silence out of respect for his grief is admirable.
His first words however are less so. Taking a rather self-righteous tone, he says, “My experience shows that those who plant trouble and cultivate evil will harvest the same.”
Was Eliphaz so young, or his experience so limited that he had never seen bad things happen to good people?
Perhaps, especially on a scale like this. This must be the judgment of God.
