And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
Job 22:13 belongs to Eliphaz's third speech, in which he accuses Job, within the larger debate between Job and his friends over the cause of his afflictions. The friends' argument in that debate rested on their own wisdom and observation and was generally true, yet it was wrongly applied to Job. Because the charge comes from Eliphaz's misguided speech about Job and God, its claim that Job denied God's knowledge and judgment through the dark cloud cannot be treated as reliable truth unless supported elsewhere in inspired Scripture, nor accepted as a true account of what Job believed.
Job could not understand God's dealings with him, yet he knew his own integrity and did not accuse God of wrongdoing. God saw the outcome from the beginning and was working through Job's trial for his good and for the comfort and hope of others. The dark cloud also shows that God's glory in heaven is veiled in darkness because sin has spread through the universe.
Job 22:13 belongs to Eliphaz's third speech, in which he accuses Job, within the larger debate between Job and his friends over the cause of his afflictions. The friends' argument in that debate rested on their own wisdom and observation and was generally true, yet it was wrongly applied to Job. Because the charge comes from Eliphaz's misguided speech about Job and God, its claim that Job denied God's knowledge and judgment through the dark cloud cannot be treated as reliable truth unless supported elsewhere in inspired Scripture, nor accepted as a true account of what Job believed.
Job could not understand God's dealings with him, yet he knew his own integrity and did not accuse God of wrongdoing. God saw the outcome from the beginning and was working through Job's trial for his good and for the comfort and hope of others. The dark cloud also shows that God's glory in heaven is veiled in darkness because sin has spread through the universe.