An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…

His second Argument beginning at the seventh Verse and carried on to the twelfth, is grounded upon a supposed inequality of Gods present dealing with him, in reference to his former dealings with godly men.

Eliphaz thought thus, surely Job is an Hypocrite, otherwise God would have dealt with him, as with an innocent; Remember (saith he) I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent; I will convince thee by all examples, by whatsoever is upon Record, in the History of all Ages, that thou art an Hypocrite, a wicked person; for see, if thou canst find an instance in any Story, of an innocent person perishing. That is his second Argument.

Eliphaz thought thus, surely Job is an Hypocrite, otherwise God would have dealt with him, as with an innocent; Remember (saith he) I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent; I will convince thee by all examples, by whatsoever is upon Record, in the History of all Ages, that thou art an Hypocrite, a wicked person; for see, if thou canst finde an instance in any Story, of an innocent person perishing. That is his second Argument.

His third Argument is continued from the twelfth Verse to the end of this fourth Chapter; and that he might make the deeper impression upon Jobs spirit, he brings it in with a dreadful Preamble: a Vision from God, at once terrifying and instructing him, thus to reason down the pride of man. The Argument it self is couched in the seventeenth verse. It is drawn from an evidence of presumption in all such, as shall dare to implead Gods justice or plead their own: as if Eliphaz had said, surely thou art a proud and a wicked person, for there was never any godly man upon the face of the Earth, no nor any Angel in Heaven that durst be so bold with God as thou hast been; Shall mortal man (saith he) be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? Behold he put no trust in his servants, and his Angels he charged with folly.