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If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, If you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
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A Misapplied Truth
Commentators like Matthew Henry and Charles Ellicott highlight a critical flaw in Eliphaz's counsel. While the principle 'return to God and be restored' is good, Eliphaz wrongly assumes Job is a wicked man who has abandoned God. This serves as a powerful warning against slandering fellow believers or misjudging their suffering based on false assumptions.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If you return to the Almighty - Assuming that he was an impenitent sinner, and wholly unreconciled to him.
You shall …
19th Century
Anglican
Thou shalt put away iniquity. —All this implies the imputation of apostasy and iniquity to Job.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If you return to the Almighty Which supposes a departure from him; and that is by sinning against him, which should …
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The answer of Eliphaz wrongly implied that Job had previously not known God, and that prosperity in this life would follow his sincere conversion. …
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…
