Job Ep. 44: Prosperous on the Outside

Eliphaz closes out his second speech with one final portrait of the wicked — a man who appears prosperous and well-fed on the outside, but whose wealth evaporates before his time, whose legacy never matures, and whose whole interior life produces nothing but trouble. There's genuine theological truth in what Eliphaz says. The problem is what he does with it. We take a close look at how good theology can go wrong when it's turned from a pattern into a law with no exceptions — and what it cost Job to sit through thirty-five verses of it.