For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
Job 15:34 belongs to the second speech of Eliphaz within the extended colloquies between Job and his three friends in Job 3-31 concerning the cause and object of human suffering. It is faithfully recorded as what Eliphaz actually said, yet what he said was only generally true and was misapplied to Job. As a general principle it is true that evil is ultimately punished and that the congregation or company of hypocrites shall be made desolate.
Eliphaz reasoned from his own wisdom and observation, having never known a thoroughly good man to be so afflicted, and therefore treated Job's adversity as proof that Job was under the displeasure of God. Adversity, affliction, and suffering do not prove that a man is a hypocrite under God's displeasure, for whom the Lord loves He chastens. Jesus the Son of God was Himself the prince and greatest of sufferers, and in Job's suffering God was working for His own glory, for Job's blessing, and to bring comfort and hope to thousands of suffering ones.
Job 15:34 belongs to the second speech of Eliphaz within the extended colloquies between Job and his three friends in Job 3-31 concerning the cause and object of human suffering. It is faithfully recorded as what Eliphaz actually said, yet what he said was only generally true and was misapplied to Job. As a general principle it is true that evil is ultimately punished and that the congregation or company of hypocrites shall be made desolate.
Eliphaz reasoned from his own wisdom and observation, having never known a thoroughly good man to be so afflicted, and therefore treated Job's adversity as proof that Job was under the displeasure of God. Adversity, affliction, and suffering do not prove that a man is a hypocrite under God's displeasure, for whom the Lord loves He chastens. Jesus the Son of God was Himself the prince and greatest of sufferers, and in Job's suffering God was working for His own glory, for Job's blessing, and to bring comfort and hope to thousands of suffering ones.