“Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;”
Eliphaz states that trouble does not spring from the dust nor does suffering arise from the ground, implying that these are not random accidents but are traceable to moral causes and divine design. The assertion that suffering has a source and is not arbitrary becomes the basis for Eliphaz's insistence that Job should look for the moral cause within himself. This principle denies the possibility of innocent suffering.
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