Eliphaz asserts that the innocent do not perish and that the upright are not destroyed, articulating a core doctrine of what Job's friends believe about the relationship between moral integrity and divine protection. This assertion makes the implicit claim that if Job is suffering terribly, there must be some moral failure or hidden sin that has opened him to destruction. The doctrine becomes a weapon even as it is offered as comfort.

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