"Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash." Eliphaz observes Job's emotional intensity—his carried-away heart, his flashing eyes—and treats it as evidence of spiritual corruption. What Job experiences as passion for truth, Eliphaz reads as rage and impetuousness. The verse reflects the friends' difficulty in recognizing legitimate emotion in Job; they pathologize his intensity.

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