Job 4 - 7

Eliphaz, Job’s friend, speaks first and immediately jumps to the conclusion that Job must be guilty of sin, or he wouldn’t be afflicted, and tells him to repent. Job responds by saying that a despairing man’s friends should show him kindness, and then challenges them to tell him his sin.

There are 3 major cycles of indictment from Job’s friends telling him that God has forsaken him followed by job rebuking them and declaring the sovereignty of God. He simply refuses to blame God and instead gives him glory.

On a side note; many scholars consider Abraham and Job to be contemporaries. They lived at about the same time but in different areas. In Job 1 God states that there is no man more righteous than Job when he is talking to Satan. However, God does not choose Job to be the father over many nations. He chose Abraham with all his doubts and faults. He chose someone broken and made him a father over many nations.