Posts with the tag “friends”

“You are worthless physicians, all of you!” (13:4)Job called them “worthless physicians.” Today we call such people “Job’s comforters”—a scathing little phrase which by dint of its sheer utility has f...  Read More

“How painful are honest words!  But what do your arguments prove?” (6:25) Where Eliphaz has been evasive in his accusations, Job is forthright, and Chapter 6 ends with a blunt, staccato summary—as pla...  Read More

“Teach me, and I will be quiet;  show me where I have been wrong.” (6:24) When it comes to isolating and naming the actual sin they believe to have led to Job’s downfall, his friends beat about the bu...  Read More

“A despairing man should have the devotion of his friends. . . . But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams . . . that cease to flow in the dry season.” (6:14-17)In many ways the myst...  Read More

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