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**Job 15:7** — *"Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?"*
Eliphaz levels this at Job like a blade — and it lands with surgical precision. The accusation beneath the words: *You speak as though you were there at creation's dawn.*
But here is what Eliphaz missed. He wielded the question to diminish Job. God would later ask something far deeper from the whirlwind — *"Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?"* (Job 38:4) — not to crush, but to reorient.
There is a difference between a man who uses your smallness against you and a God who reveals your smallness to restore you.
Wisdom does not begin with accumulated years or confident theology. It begins in the fear of the Lord (Proverbs 9:10) — a posture of creaturely humility before the One who *was* brought forth before the hills.
Let us reflect on who holds the questions — and who holds us.
Eliphaz levels this at Job like a blade — and it lands with surgical precision. The accusation beneath the words: *You speak as though you were there at creation's dawn.*
But here is what Eliphaz missed. He wielded the question to diminish Job. God would later ask something far deeper from the whirlwind — *"Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?"* (Job 38:4) — not to crush, but to reorient.
There is a difference between a man who uses your smallness against you and a God who reveals your smallness to restore you.
Wisdom does not begin with accumulated years or confident theology. It begins in the fear of the Lord (Proverbs 9:10) — a posture of creaturely humility before the One who *was* brought forth before the hills.
Let us reflect on who holds the questions — and who holds us.
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