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“The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, and numbered are the
years stored up for the ruthless.”
You see, Eliphaz says I know why you are in that awful situation. I know
why you have lost your family, and you have lost your crops, and you
have lost your job, and you have lost the support of your life companion,
and you have lost the sense of God’s presence, and you have lost your
health, and you have come into these awful straits. It is because you are a
wicked man. You might be hiding your sin and not admitting it, but you
are a sinful man. Eliphaz speaks again 4:22,

“Is it because of your reverence that He reproves you,
That He enters into judgement against you?” (Haughty hypocrite!)
Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquities without end?”
Now watch what he accuses Job of.
“For you have taken pledges of your brothers without cause and
stripped men naked. To the weary you have given no water to drink,
and from the hungry you have withheld bread. But the earth
belongs to the mighty man, and the honorable man dwells in it. You
have sent widows away empty, and the strength of the orphans has
been crushed. Therefore snares surround you, and sudden dread
terrifies you, or darkness, so that you cannot see, and an abundance
of water covers you.”

Oh, I tell you, this Eliphaz was brutal. He comes right out and he accused
him of all kinds of things. Look at verse 23 of the same chapter.
“If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored; If you remove
unrighteousness far from your tent.”
You are a wicked man, Job. Eliphaz believed that suffering was because
of sin. Listen to Bildad. Chapter 8, verse 6
“If you are pure and upright, surely now He would rouse Himself
for you and restore your righteous estate.”
That is what Bildad said. If you were pure, if you did not do anything
wrong, then God would restore you. Look at verse 20,
“Lo, God will not reject a man of integrity, Nor will He support the
evildoers.”

That is why you are in that trouble; you are an evildoer. Look at chapter
18. I will only read one verse, but you can glance at the whole chapter,

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