Wednesday, December 16, 2009

When Job's three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar heard about this they came at once. For seven days no one spoke. After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
"If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking? Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.
Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.
But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.

Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?
"Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed? The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.

I like what he's getting at where it's colored green. He helped others who were weak, yet when disaster fell upon him he didn't know what to do.

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