Category Archives: Zophar

God reveals Himself in Leviathan & Job is moved to repentance

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God offers the ultimate example of Job’s need for humility. He describes the only creature on earth God created with no fear and no rival.

Leviathan practically defies description in power, invulnerability and majesty – yet Leviathans are easily tamed by God.

God states this then asks Job, “Who then can stand against Me?”

Job repents by saying, “I have heard about You, but now I see You!”

God encourages mercy out of Job for his friends and then restores all he lost 2 times over!

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Job Elihu

Elihu speaks of the Wonders & the Power of God

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Elihu begins to break down Job’s defenses.

First he dismantles his prideful assumptions.

Then he introduces the notion that Job’s trials are tests of his character/

Next he suggests that the reason why Job has not seen God in all of this is because he was looking in the wrong place, that sometimes in the suffering and afflictions that God sometimes reveals Himself.

Finally Elihu encourages Job to consider that God is all around him in all the displays of his wonders and power seen throughout creation.

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Elihu Job

Elihu, Job’s 1 in a 1,000

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Job has ended his arguments and his friends are done tyring to convince him of their views. Job has become self-righteous and accusatory at God.

God desires to justify his servant, and bring his trials to a quick end, but He must procure Job’s humility first for God’s grace only comes to the humble. Those in pride He will actively resist.

So in steps the young man Elihu, who begins to provide a context for another way of viewing his difficulties. Elihu becomes a spiritual covering for Job serving him in the capacity of a mediator and intercessor!

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Job Prosper

Job asks, Why do the wicked prosper?

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The escalating disagreement between Job and his friends takes another turn here in chapters 20-22. Job begins to express his frustration at God, Who – in Job’s opinion – not only fails to judge the wicked, but in many instances actually blesses them in their sin.

His friends Eliphaz and Zophar agrue to the contrary and continue to insist that if Job were not in sin, or if he would humble himself and repent this obvious judgment of God over him would end.

Job and his friends are BOTH right AND wrong as we discover from other scriptures which place these arguments into a context which reveals God’s actions and intentions.

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Job Tree

Job aruges, “If only I were a tree…”

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It is revealed in these chapters that Job has moved from hurt, to confused, to frustrated only to arive now at anger. Even his words to and about God are spoken with the flash of anger in his eyes according to Eliphaz.

One can hardly blame Job OR his friends for that matter. They simply have no context for what is happening. So for now, an ongoing blame game is the basis and content of all their arguments.

A good take away from these chapters is that silence is golden and words spoken without understanding nearly always lead to sin.

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