Eliphaz once again addresses Job. He starts with a series of questions. First, is man profitable to God being wisdom is only profitable to man (Job 22: 2)? Second, would God take pleasure or gain if Job were blameless (Job 22:3)? Third, is it because Job fears God that Job is suffering (Job 22:4)? Eliphaz is using these questions to show that Job is suffering because of some sin in his life, and that Job has behaved as an evil man (Job 22: 5). He accuses Job of taking everything from others due to debt, withholding water and food from the thirsty and hungry, turning away widows and crushing the fatherless (Job22:6-9). These are weighty accusations and we have non scripture to show that Job did any of these things. He says that this is the reason that Job suffers (Job 22: 10-11). Eliphaz then accuses Job of indicating that God is not able to judge the wicked on Earth (Job 22: 12-14), which Job has never indicated. Eliphaz asks Job if he will continue in the way of the wicked where they momentarily prosper, but in the end, everything is consumed by fire (Job 22:15-20). Eliphaz encourages Job to repent and receive the correction of God. Then Job will be restored. Job will again delight in God, and his prayers will be answered as God will deliver the sinner when they humble themselves. (Job 22: 21-30)

Job now tires of arguing his innocence before his friends. He really does not respond to Eliphaz. Instead, he expresses a yearning to come before God to please his case (Job 23:3-4). Job is confident that God would listen and respond to him (Job 23:5-6). In fact, Job states “There an upright man would argue with Him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge” (Job 23:7). Compare this with 1 John 2:1 which states “My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.” While not knowing Christ as we do, Job had faith that there was a heavenly advocate that would argue Job’s case in his behalf. Job states that he cannot perceive God, but God has been beside him all along and Job knows he will be found innocent (Job 23:9-10). Job again proclaims he has been righteous in his actions (Job 23: 11-12), but what God wills cannot be changed including what is occurring to Job which is why Job is now terrified of God but will still not be silent (Job 23: 13-14).

Job then laments that times where the wicked do not receive judgement, and the righteous do not have a sense of when God’s glory will be revealed to man (Job 24: 1). He makes a long list of wrongs done to the poor, widows, and the fatherless (Job 24: 11), yet even in their dying groan God appears to accuse no one with the wrong (Job 24: 12). Job notes the unrighteous who do evil in darkness resisting the light (Job 24: 13-17). Job now finally again addresses his friends and their comments about how the evil will be brought low and the righteous will prosper to demonstrate that is what God intended, but injustice seems to prevail (Job 24: 18-25).