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Job 5:1–7 – Trouble grows from human folly

What happens: Eliphaz says calling to heavenly beings will not help the fool. He claims he saw a fool taking root, then his house collapsed and his children suffered. He concludes that man is born to trouble as sparks fly upward.

What it means: Eliphaz mixes observation with assumption. Human sin does produce pain, yet not all pain comes from personal sin. Counsel that blames the victim misrepresents God’s justice and compassion.

Job 5:8–16 – Seek God who overturns the proud

What happens: Eliphaz urges Job to seek God, who does great things, frustrates the crafty, and lifts the lowly. He says God gives hope to the poor and stops injustice.

What it means: Appealing to God is right. God is wise, powerful, and near the oppressed. Yet timing and tone matter. True comfort calls sufferers to God without presuming their guilt.

Job 5:17–27 – Blessed under God’s discipline

What happens: Eliphaz declares that the one whom God reproves is blessed. He lists promises of healing, protection, and restored prosperity if Job accepts correction. He ends with confidence that this is true and good.

What it means: God disciplines his children for their good. The promises of restoration are real but not a bargaining script. Misapplying discipline language to an innocent sufferer twists hope into pressure.

Application

  • Encourage turning to God, but do not assume hidden guilt.
  • Share hope without making prosperity the proof of faith.
  • When discipline is clear, accept it; when it is not, refrain from accusing.
  • Stand with the oppressed and trust God to confront the proud.

Bible

1Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

2For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

6Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

8I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

9Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

10Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

11To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

15But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

17Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

18For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

19He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

20In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

21Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

22At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

23For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

24And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

25Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

26Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

27Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

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