Job 4: Eliphaz Answers Job

Eliphaz the Temanite begins the friends’ first round of speeches, reminding Job how he once encouraged others and arguing that the innocent are never destroyed. He then describes a terrifying night vision whose message is that no human can surpass God in righteousness or purity, since people are frail as dust.

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What does Eliphaz give as the basis for his claim that evildoers harvest the harm they plant (Job 4:8)?

A written law that Job’s own father had taught himHis own experience of watching how things turn outThe verdict the elders had announced at the city gateA sign he had seen in the stars over the land of Uz