Job 15:11

"With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father."

Key Reflection

In Job 15:11, Eliphaz draws on the wisdom and experience of the elderly to emphasize his own credibility as a speaker. By mentioning "the gray-headed and the very aged," he underscores that his counsel is not from youthful presumption but comes from seasoned, long-lived insight.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Are the consolations of God small with thee? -The “consolations of God” here refer probably to those considerations which had been suggested by Eliphaz and his friends, and which he takes to be the “consolations” which God had furnished for the afflicted. He asks whether they were regarded by Job as of little value? Whether he was not willing to take such consolations as God had provided, and to allow them to sustain him instead of permitting himself to inveigh against God? The Septuagint renders this, “thou hast been chastised less than thy sins deserve.

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