[July 2006 journal entry]
By 5:8ff, Eliphaz is completely out of touch with the ‘scrapheap’ Job, whose responses play off Eliphaz’s disconnection by taking so many of his words/metaphors in directions opposite to Eliphaz’s intentions. Eliphaz is determined to keep the ‘scrapheap’ Job from questioning ‘God’.
By 5:8ff, Eliphaz is completely out of touch with the ‘scrapheap’ Job, whose responses play off Eliphaz’s disconnection by taking so many of his words/metaphors in directions opposite to Eliphaz’s intentions. Eliphaz is determined to keep the ‘scrapheap’ Job from questioning ‘God’.
