If you believe the three friends of Job are liars, can you point to their exact lies? Did God send them as witnesses against Job as Job professed? Why did God accept them first and then Job? Why wasn't Job accepted before the last chapter?
The bad rap of Job's three friends, Why?
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God Himself said they had not spoken what is right.
“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…. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.””
Job 42:7-8 ESV
God didn’t say they “lied”. Let’s not prejudice the conversation by using an inflammatory term.
“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…. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.””
Job 42:7-8 ESV
God didn’t say they “lied”. Let’s not prejudice the conversation by using an inflammatory term.
God didn't accept Job's 3 friends for a sacrifice had to be made for all 3 because they did not speak that which is right.
But the 4th person Elihu that spoke did not need a sacrifice for him and does not say he did not speak right.
God Himself said they had not spoken what is right.
“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…. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.””
Job 42:7-8 ESV
God didn’t say they “lied”. Let’s not prejudice the conversation by using an inflammatory term.
You are correct that God did not say they lied. Do you have any idea what they had not spoken, but that Job had spoken?
Job 42:1
Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
Job 42:2
"I know that You can do every thing, and that no thought can be withheld from You.
Job 42:3
'Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge?'
Therefore, I have uttered what I did not understand things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Job 42:4
'Hear, I beseech you, and I will speak: I will demand of you, and you declare to me.'
Job 42:5
I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye sees You.
Job 42:6
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."