Wed.’s Devo - Eliphaz Describes the Wicked Man

Read Job 15:1-35 Eliphaz wants to know why Job thinks he is so much smarter than them. Has he been around since the earth began and knows all of God’s secrets? He believes that Job is blaspheming God by claiming to be innocent. No man is clean before God. Then Eliphaz describes the “wicked man” hoping that Job will see himself in the description. The wicked man is in pain all his life and when he prospers, then the destroyer (the Devil) comes and destroys what he has. He is reduced to a beggar and trouble and distress will follow him because he set himself against God. This will happen because he defied God and trusted in his riches. His riches will burn away and never return. He shall not be fruitful but end up with the hypocrites. The houses of those who receive bribes will be consumed with fire. The wicked are pregnant with worry and reap trouble and deceit. This is true of the wicked man, it just wasn’t true of Job. Job’s friends couldn’t understand how an innocent person could go through all that much trouble and it not be judgment. When we don’t understand what is happening it is best to just wait on the Lord to reveal it to us. Sometimes we need to just “count it all joy….” James 1:2 Lord, we trust that you know what is going on in the world and in our country and in our lives.