Eliphaz continues to treat Job as though he had committed some great sin. Surely he must have taken advantage of the helpless, mistreated the defenseless or some other heinous act to have received such treatment from the Almighty. He urges Job to make things right in God's sight and incur the consequences of a restored relationship, namely the removal of injustice and the restoration of life, the hearing of prayers and the deliverance only God can provide.
Job responds. He states that he is willing to go before God - not to confess his sin, but to lay out his case of innocence. The only problem Job faces at the moment is knowing where to find God. Job cannot seem to put his finger on the location of God at the moment; but he is confident that God knows exactly where he is, and is accomplishing something in the process. This "mystery" of what God is doing terrifies Job, for he thought he knew how God operated. The events in Job's recent experience have turned his world upside-down and he is not sure what to trust at the moment. He asks his friends to prove to him if he is deceiving himself in this evaluation.
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