What is the context?
Eliphaz promises delight in God, answered prayer, fulfilled decisions, and help for the lowly. The speech closes by saying even another person can be delivered through clean hands.
These promises still belong to his appeal that Job accept the diagnosis and return. The verse about decisions is not given by the narrator as an independent rule that any human pronouncement must come true.
The final reference to another’s deliverance also looks different when the book reaches the friends’ need for Job’s prayer. Their confident adviser will himself need the mercy he discusses.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley explicitly connects the closing promise with Job’s later prayer for the friends, who are not innocent in the dispute. This is a useful irony in the speech’s ending. It does not establish a technique by which a person’s words obligate God to produce every desired result.
What is our position?
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