Eliphaz
Eliphaz, the first of Job's friends to speak to him in his trials (chapters 4 and 5) speaks again, and with much more boldness than. before. His theme is again what he has seen in the world. To him now job is evidently a wicked man, long concealing his wickedness, but at last overtaken by the judgment of God. How trying it was for this saint, in such circumstances as were his, and not understanding God's dealings with him, to have to listen to the charges of his friend! Eliphaz, in verse 4, chides him with holding back from prayer or meditation with God. With many of God's dear children passing through deep trial, there are times in which they do not feel able to pray, or to enjoy meditation on His Word; it even seems as though they could not pray, And Satan uses this to remove them, if lie can, farther away from God.
What Job needed, like many another child of God, was to condemn himself, and yet he was justifying- himself as much as he could. He lived too much in his own good opinion, and the good opinion of others—always a danger to the Christian. But he was not afraid of meeting God; he knew that all would be well with him in the end, in eternity, if not in life, That is one of the proofs that he was a child of God.