Job 22:29-30
For when they are humbled you say, ‘It is because of pride’;
but he saves the lowly.
He delivers even the one who is not innocent,
who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”
Tag: Prayer for the guilty
Eliphaz has, once again, delivered a stinging speech to Job about his "obvious" sin and the results of it. Eliphaz has not held back in his incrimination of Job and continues to remind his "friend" that the reason for his suffering is his guilt. In an ironic ending to the speech, the above couple of verses conclude Eliphaz's sharp words. He is telling Job that when someone humbles himself and seeks repentance a person can, by his intercession, pray for others and deliver them from their uncleanness. His thought is it the one who finds innocence is the one who can pray for others. Eliphaz is right about some things. His statement that an innocent man can pray for someone else and deliver him will come true earlier than he thinks. Note the following:
Job 42:7-8
After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”
God will eventually ask Job to pray for Eliphaz. Job is righteous and will pray for Eliphaz and his friends. James says it this way:
James 5:16
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Eliphaz in his condemning, actually gave us a truth that Job will fulfill. Ironic!!
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