Eliphaz might mean well, but he overlooks the fact that Job’s suffering goes far beyond the suffering of anyone else. Yet his statement reflects the truth that it is good for God’s people to have leaders who set them a good example in every circumstance (1 Timothy 4:12; Titus 2:7).
5 But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.