“Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:”
Eliphaz pronounces blessed the person whom God corrects and reproves, suggesting that suffering should be interpreted not as punishment but as divine discipline aimed at moral education and improvement. The reframing of suffering as correction rather than condemnation becomes the basis for Eliphaz's hope that Job can be restored through this trial. The beatitude extends a kind of encouragement even as it reinterprets suffering.
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