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Look at chapter 22 if you want to see a tremendous verse. Once
again, Eliphaz speaks. Verse 21,

“Yield now and be at peace with Him.”

Boy, isn’t that a tremendous sermon? You could take each word. Yield.
Now. Be at peace with Him. You could preach on every one. 22:21-27,
“Therefore good will come to you. Please receive instruction from
His mouth and establish His words in your heart. If you return to the
Almighty, you will be restored; If you remove unrighteousness far from
your tent, and place your gold in the dust, and the gold of Ophir among
the stones of the brooks, then the Almighty will be your gold. And
choice silver to you. For then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up
your face to God. You will pray to Him, and He will hear you; And you
will pay your vows.”
Aren’t those marvelous verses? That is Eliphaz speaking, the philosopher.
The same thing is true of Bildad. Chapter 8:1-7. Boy, you could preach
that from any evangelical pulpit. Chapter 25: 1-6

“Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, ‘Dominion and awe belong to
Him Who establishes peace in His heights. Is there any number to
His troops? And upon whom does His light not rise? How then can a
man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of woman?
If even the moon has no brightness and the stars are not pure in His
sight, how much less man, that maggot, and the son of man, that
worm!”
Marvelous truth coming from his mouth. Zophar, even that guy. You read
chapter 20, his last comment, how he describes the portion of the wicked.
It is eloquent. It is a masterpiece of poetry. So what I am saying is these
men were correct as far as they went, but now watch. Their philosophies
did not reach quite far enough.

Here stood Job, stripped, in agony, suffering, crying out from his
innermost spirit. His voice did not represent his soul. He was not able to
express the depths of his heart. Their answers never reached the real him.
They did not go down deep enough. His trials went beyond their
philosophies, and chapter 3 shows you the depths from which Job was
really crying out.
You see, it is in this way that man’s answers to the riddles of life are

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