One of the visitors, Eliphaz, answers. We must all admit that these were wise men by the world’s standards, but one thing they lacked was they didn’t know God’s thoughts. Each of the three following men has a different arguing point. This man is going on personal experience and so he is not going to tell us anything more than the human mind can think.
V.1-6 He says that while Job had been giving advice to everyone and helping them in their troubles, when disaster came to him, he got all upset.
V.7 He asks if Job ever heard of an innocent person suffering. What he really meant was that Job must not he innocent, or this trouble would not have come to him!
V.8 “I have seen.” He was going on human experience. This never helps the believer spiritually. “The world by wisdom knew not God” (1 Cor. 1:2).
V.12-21 Next he tells of a dream, or a vision he had. It had upset him a great deal. It sounds as if it could have been Satan whom he saw. It all is a criticism of God’s work, that God destroys men as quickly as He creates them, and there is no alternative.