Saul Weinreb - Let the Prophets Speak

Job continues to rebuke his friends for twisting the truth in order to justify their simplistic world view. We see how the quest to explain the unexplainable can lead to cruelty.

In anguish and pain, Job responds to Eliphaz. Nothing can justify my suffering, says Job, don't insinuate that I an somehow at fault for these calamities, and friends should offer support and not platitudes.  

Eliphaz completes his first speech in response to Job's suffering. In it he claims to know that God's justice is visible and real and therefore Job should accept it and turn to God for salvation.

Eliphaz insists that Job should pray to God and repent for his alleged sins.

Eliphaz declares that God is just and therefore the innocent cannot suffer. He therefore concludes that Job must not be innocent.

Eliphaz is upset by Job's outburst, and he criticizes him for not being able to handle the suffering.

Job laments his fate and curses the day upon which he was born.

God approves Satan's suggestion to afflict Job with a terrible disease, and tests Job's faithfulness to God.

In one fateful day, Iyov loses all his wealth, but he remains faithful to God.

God brags before His council about His wonderful Job, but Satan is cynical.