When You Speak of Being Righteous for God, Where Are You?
- May 6
- 1 min read
Job Chapter 22
Eliphaz speaks again.
“Can a person be righteous and benefit God?”
“Is not your wickedness great?”
He begins to declare Job’s guilt.
The perspective shifts here.
Is righteousness
for God’s sake?
Do human actions
affect God?
People try to hold
their righteousness as value.
To be right.
To live rightly.
They believe
it carries meaning.
Yet when it is directed toward God,
righteousness becomes
like a transaction.
Eliphaz sees Job’s suffering,
searches for a cause,
and assigns guilt.
It may be
that Eliphaz himself
has turned righteousness
into a transaction with God.
When you speak of being righteous for God,
where are you?
Are you turning righteousness
into a transaction with God?
Or do you open your hands
and stand before Him?
Eliphaz declared guilt.
When righteousness is directed toward God,
it can become
not a response,
but a transaction.
God was still silent.
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