The Book of Job
Book of Job, 8
So It Is
Job 5:27
Pastor’s Opening
THUS closed a forcible speech by Eliphaz the Temanite: it may be called his “summing up.” He virtually says, “What I have testified in the name of my friends is no dream of theirs. Upon this matter we are specialists; and bear witness to truth which we have made the subject of research and experience. Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.” By this declaration he sets forth his teaching with authority, and presses it home…
Scripture Citation and Verse(s)
Job 5:27
“Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.”
Main Theme(s)
I. To begin with, I judge that these words may well describe THE QUALIFICATION OF THE TEACHER.
II. Secondly, THE ARGUMENT FOR THE HEARER: — “Lo this, we have searched it, so it is.”
III. I close now with our third point: we have here THE EXHORTATION TO THE ENQUIRER. What do we say to him? “This, we have searched it, so it is; hear it.”
