What is the context?
Eliphaz attributes to Job the idea that God is too remote behind clouds to see human conduct. He follows it with a warning about an ancient wicked path ending in destruction.
He repeats language of people telling God to depart, which Job had used while describing the wicked. The speech treats the observation as though it reveals Job’s own attitude.
Job’s earlier refusal of the wicked people’s counsel matters here. Reporting that some reject God and still prosper is not the same as rejecting God oneself or denying that He knows their conduct.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley notices Eliphaz’s reuse of Job’s words for a contrary purpose. He connects the flood and fire imagery with familiar biblical judgments, but the argument’s immediate task is still to establish a charge against Job. Those images do not prove the opinion Eliphaz attributes to him.
What is our position?
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