Eliphaz argues that the prosperity of the wicked, that God caused, was only. prelude to disaster, like fattening up animals before the slaughter. Job 22:18 "But the counsel of the wicked is far from me": This is actually something that Job himself had said (Job 21:16). "Eliphaz wanted it known that he was rejecting the ideas of the wicked, but that he was doing so by agreeing with wicked Job!" (Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 746).

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