Job 5-10, Chuck Smith teaching (C2000, 1979 to 1985)

Read as you listen: Chuck Smith on Job 5

Read the opening of his teaching

Call now (5:1),

Eliphaz is saying to Job.

if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints will thou turn? (5:1)

Now it would seem that maybe in those days there were those who... they had already developed saints that they were turning to in trouble. Which saint do you have for boils, you know?

For wrath killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the silly. I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them (5:2-4).

Now he's accusing Job of foolishness and silliness and all of this because, you see, Job's children were crushed when the house fell. So he said, "I've seen the foolish and all. Their children are crushed in the gate and all."