Job Replies to Eliphaz

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Chapter 16 records Job's answer. Notice Job's opinion of his friends:

1. They are miserable comforters.
2. He believes that if the situation were reversed, he would try to comfort and help them with there grief.

Notice his opinion of his own condition:

1. "If I speak, it don't help or if I remain silent, that doesn't help either."
2. "God has turned me into skin and bones and my friends say it is proof of my wickedness."
3. "Here I set in sackcloth, my eyes are red from weeping."
4. "On my face is the shadow of death, yet I am innocent."
5. "My 'witness' and my 'advocate' are in heaven."

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