Eliphaz again is saying that Job deserves what is happening to him and thus has no one he can call on for relief or answers. In one sense, this is absolutely true. If God had ordained this as a punishment there isn't anyone whose position can argue against it. The problem of course is that though this is true as I have said before this isn't 100% true for Job. Job was innocent and God wasn't punishing Job. God was allowing Job to be tested. We will see later that God does come and answer Job, but not in the way Job expected and absolutely not the way Eliphaz expected.
As we will see over and over, Job's friends thought they understood everything, but they didn't. Let's learn from this and not assume we have everything figured out on our own.
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