1. Job 7:17–18 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Commentary on Job 7:17–18 (Summary)

Job 7:17–18 (ESV)

17 What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him,

Eliphaz’s reasoning has put Job on the wrong track. Job now wrongly portrays God as an enemy of men, someone who tests them without mercy.

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