Piety

Job 4:2-6 – “If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking? Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands. Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees. But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed. Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?

Jeremiah 20:9 – But if I say, “I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name,” his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot.

Isaiah 1:17 – Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.

Job 1:1 – In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.

Application:

• ·         Eliphaz seems to be genuinely concerned with Job’s well-being and offers a complimentary word.
• ·         “Fatherless…widow” represented the weak and often oppressed part of society. Rulers were warned not to take advantage of them.
• ·         Eliphaz counsels Job to be confident that his piety will count with God, that though God is now chastening him for some sin, it is to a good end, and he can be assured that God will not destroy him along with the wicked.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV