Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Job 15:24 is spoken by Eliphaz, one of Job's three friends, in the course of the debate with Job over his afflictions. It belongs to Eliphaz's second speech, in which he brings fresh accusations against Job. Job answers that speech by protesting his innocence and expressing a desire for death.
The fact that the saying stands in an inspired book guarantees that Eliphaz truly uttered it, not that everything he uttered is true. His speech therefore is not to be taken as a reliable account of Job or of God unless its claims are confirmed elsewhere by inspired Scripture.
What Job's friends said was in general true but was misapplied to Job, the abiding general truth being that evil is ultimately punished and good is ultimately rewarded. That trouble and anguish prevail against a man does not by itself prove that he lies under God's displeasure, nor is it by itself a reason for him to be discouraged.
Job 15:24 is spoken by Eliphaz, one of Job's three friends, in the course of the debate with Job over his afflictions. It belongs to Eliphaz's second speech, in which he brings fresh accusations against Job. Job answers that speech by protesting his innocence and expressing a desire for death.
The fact that the saying stands in an inspired book guarantees that Eliphaz truly uttered it, not that everything he uttered is true. His speech therefore is not to be taken as a reliable account of Job or of God unless its claims are confirmed elsewhere by inspired Scripture.
What Job's friends said was in general true but was misapplied to Job, the abiding general truth being that evil is ultimately punished and good is ultimately rewarded. That trouble and anguish prevail against a man does not by itself prove that he lies under God's displeasure, nor is it by itself a reason for him to be discouraged.