Posts with the tag “eliphaz”

“Should not your piety be your confidence,  and your blameless ways your hope?” (4:6) Just six verses into his opening harangue, Eliphaz inadvertently broaches an issue that happens to be of signal im...  Read More

“If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?” (4:2) All the characters in this book seem impatient to get a word in edgewise, and all are quick to criti...  Read More

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: . . .  “As I have observed . . . those who sow  trouble reap it.” (4:1, 8) What sort of man was Eliphaz the Temanite? Many attempts have been made to read between th...  Read More