Job 4:6
Job 4:6-11
“Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope? Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright destroyed? According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble harvest it. By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they come to an end. The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions are broken. The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.”
Job 22:5-11
“Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquities without end? For you have taken pledges of your brothers without cause, and stripped men naked. To the weary you have given no water to drink, and from the hungry you have withheld bread. But the earth belongs to the mighty man, and the honorable man dwells in it. You have sent widows away empty, and the strength of the orphans has been crushed. Therefore snares surround you, and sudden dread terrifies you, or darkness, so that you cannot see, and an abundance of water covers you.”
Job 22:21-25
“Yield now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you. Please receive instruction from His mouth and establish His words in your heart. If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored; if you remove unrighteousness far from your tent, and place your gold in the dust, and the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks, then the Almighty will be your gold and choice silver to you.”
Eliphaz the Temanite appealed to the sovereignty of God, and condemned Job. It was a simple answer, and seemingly pious, but it was not correct, and God was not pleased.
Job 42:7-9: “It came about after the LORD had
spoken these words to Job, that the LORD said
to Eliphaz the Temanite, ‘My wrath is kindled
against you and against your two friends, because
you have not spoken of Me what is right as My
servant Job has. Now therefore, take for yourselves
seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant
Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves,
and My servant Job will pray for you. For I will
accept him so that I may not do with you according
to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me
what is right, as My servant Job has.’ So Eliphaz
the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar
the Naamathite went and did as the LORD told
them; and the LORD accepted Job.”
Calvinists love to make pious sounding appeals to the sovereignty of God, but as shown, pious appeals do not ensure accuracy, and eventually God will weigh in, and He mentioned “wrath.”
