Eliphaz implicitly reproaches Job by noting that now his affliction has come, he has grown impatient and weary, unable to apply his own teachings to his own extremity. The transition from Job's role as teacher of others to his current apparent loss of faith in his own doctrine creates a paradox that Eliphaz wishes to highlight. This observation sets up the implicit claim that Job's current despair reveals either the inadequacy of his former teachings or his failure to practice them.

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