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Job 13-15
Today we get:
Job 13
2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
Job is tired of hearing his three friends accuse him of some hidden sin. He's tired of their holier than thou attitude (which it truly is as they are accusing him of sin).
5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Job busts out the old proverb of "better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt".
8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Job says that when his friends judged that the reason he was tormented because of sin, that it had to be because of God. They had spoken for God, and Job didn't like that.
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Job's tired of the accusations; he's going to defend himself, except he never really does.
Job 14
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
You can't polish a turd. You can make earrings out of moose poop, and it may be shiny, but ultimately, it's still shit.
22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
Job ended chapter 14 and 13 with analogies of rotting flesh and clothes eaten by moths. We don't know exactly what was afflicting him, but he was probably really disgusting to look at, with oozing sores and puss filled wounds.
Job 15
1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
We haven't heard from Eliphaz since chapter 4. Apparently even though these guys are dead set that Job has committed some great sin that brought this on him, they are still polite enough not to interrupt.
2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
The east wind analogy again. Bildad earlier had talked about the strong wind, which also is the east wind. Remember, it comes from the desert and is choking and kills.
5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Eliphaz again tells Job that by denying that he's sinning, that he's sinning.
10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
Eliphaz claims to be very old.
Genesis 36:4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;
Could he be the son of Esau? Esau was born in roughly 1740 BC. It's commonly believed that Esau's son Eliphaz chased Jacob all the way to Laban, and then let him go. Esau and Jacob were twins, so if Eliphaz was old enough to follow, then Jacob would have been at least in his 30's when he fled and Eliphaz had been an early teen. So, we are under the impression that Job takes place around 1300, that would put Eliphaz as being about 300... so it's not the same guy.
14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Remember this takes place before Moses, so it's before the law. The people at this time would have been under the Noahide laws.
These laws were
*1 Prohibition against idolatry
*2 Prohibition against blasphemy
*3 Prohibition against murder
*4 Prohibition against theft
*5 Prohibition against sexual immorality
*6 Prohibition against eating the limb of a living animal
*7 Establish courts of justice
So the friends were accusing Job of breaking one of the above laws. They probably wouldn't be hanging out with Job if they thought it was murder. Most likely they thought it was blasphemy.
20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
He's just short of accusing Job of blasphemy.
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Is that the same belly that holds the east wind?
So what have we learned today?
1. Job is finally starting to lose his temper.
2. Job was probably really really disgusting to look at. More so than any sideshow freak ever.
3. Eliphaz was probably a descent of Esau, so even though he was old, he probably had really hairy gray haired arms.
YIC
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Today we get:
- Job accuses his friends
- Job whines some more
- Eliphaz accuses Job again
Job 13
2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
Job is tired of hearing his three friends accuse him of some hidden sin. He's tired of their holier than thou attitude (which it truly is as they are accusing him of sin).
5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Job busts out the old proverb of "better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt".
8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Job says that when his friends judged that the reason he was tormented because of sin, that it had to be because of God. They had spoken for God, and Job didn't like that.
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Job's tired of the accusations; he's going to defend himself, except he never really does.
Job 14
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
You can't polish a turd. You can make earrings out of moose poop, and it may be shiny, but ultimately, it's still shit.
22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
Job ended chapter 14 and 13 with analogies of rotting flesh and clothes eaten by moths. We don't know exactly what was afflicting him, but he was probably really disgusting to look at, with oozing sores and puss filled wounds.
Job 15
1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
We haven't heard from Eliphaz since chapter 4. Apparently even though these guys are dead set that Job has committed some great sin that brought this on him, they are still polite enough not to interrupt.
2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
The east wind analogy again. Bildad earlier had talked about the strong wind, which also is the east wind. Remember, it comes from the desert and is choking and kills.
5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Eliphaz again tells Job that by denying that he's sinning, that he's sinning.
10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
Eliphaz claims to be very old.
Genesis 36:4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;
Could he be the son of Esau? Esau was born in roughly 1740 BC. It's commonly believed that Esau's son Eliphaz chased Jacob all the way to Laban, and then let him go. Esau and Jacob were twins, so if Eliphaz was old enough to follow, then Jacob would have been at least in his 30's when he fled and Eliphaz had been an early teen. So, we are under the impression that Job takes place around 1300, that would put Eliphaz as being about 300... so it's not the same guy.
14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Remember this takes place before Moses, so it's before the law. The people at this time would have been under the Noahide laws.
These laws were
*1 Prohibition against idolatry
*2 Prohibition against blasphemy
*3 Prohibition against murder
*4 Prohibition against theft
*5 Prohibition against sexual immorality
*6 Prohibition against eating the limb of a living animal
*7 Establish courts of justice
So the friends were accusing Job of breaking one of the above laws. They probably wouldn't be hanging out with Job if they thought it was murder. Most likely they thought it was blasphemy.
20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
He's just short of accusing Job of blasphemy.
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Is that the same belly that holds the east wind?
So what have we learned today?
1. Job is finally starting to lose his temper.
2. Job was probably really really disgusting to look at. More so than any sideshow freak ever.
3. Eliphaz was probably a descent of Esau, so even though he was old, he probably had really hairy gray haired arms.
YIC
V