One Size Does Not Fit All

Your perspective does not apply to everybody or every situation. Take time to listen to each individual and evaluate each circumstance. Eliphaz said some good things that he had learned from his experience (Job 5:27). The problem was that they did not apply to Job. It would have been better for Eliphaz to play the counselor and not the preacher in this situation. Some things cannot be distilled into simple principles. Life is difficult and complicated. What Job needed was kindness, not criticism (Job 6:14).