Know Your Place

Eliphaz was asking the same types of questions that God would eventually ask Job. Did you pre-exist everyone else? Were you around before creation? Do you have a corner on all wisdom? (Job 15:7-8) But God was not happy with Job’s counselors. Why not? I think it was because Eliphaz was not in a position to ask these questions. He was in the same predicament as Job was. His knowledge was limited by his humanity. Rather than responding with judgment (God’s jurisdiction), he should have responded with compassion (human responsibility).