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Yet he filled their houses with good things, But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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A Sarcastic Accusation
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that Eliphaz is using biting sarcasm. He quotes Job's own words from a previous chapter ('the counsel of the wicked is far from me') to mock him. Eliphaz's point is to accuse Job of secretly defending the wicked, despite his pious-sounding claims to the contrary.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Yet he filled their houses with good things - This is undoubtedly a biting sarcasm. Job had maintained that such people were prospe…
19th Century
Anglican
Yet he filled their houses. —The bitterness of his irony now reaches its climax because he adopts the very formula of rep…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Yet he filled their houses with good [things] With temporal good things, with this world's good, with plenty of prov…
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Eliphaz wanted Job to mark the old way that wicked men have walked, and see what the end of their way was. It is good for us to mark it, so that we…
13th Century
Catholic
In the preceding words, Eliphaz seems to have charged Job with not believing that God has providence in human affairs. Now, as a consequence, he ap…
