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**Job 6:27** — *"You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend."*
Job speaks these words at his lowest point — not to God, but to his counselors. Men who came to comfort him had become men who commodified him.
This is the wound beneath the wound. Suffering is hard. Being treated as a transaction *while* suffering is something else entirely.
Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar arrived with theology but without mercy. They had answers where Job needed presence. They cast theological lots over a broken man — sorting his pain into categories that served their own certainty.
Scripture reminds us that covenant friendship is not a debate to be won. Proverbs 17:17 says *"A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity."*
Walk with someone in their grief today without needing to resolve it.
There is a difference between a shepherd and an auditor — and the people around us already know which one we are.
Job speaks these words at his lowest point — not to God, but to his counselors. Men who came to comfort him had become men who commodified him.
This is the wound beneath the wound. Suffering is hard. Being treated as a transaction *while* suffering is something else entirely.
Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar arrived with theology but without mercy. They had answers where Job needed presence. They cast theological lots over a broken man — sorting his pain into categories that served their own certainty.
Scripture reminds us that covenant friendship is not a debate to be won. Proverbs 17:17 says *"A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity."*
Walk with someone in their grief today without needing to resolve it.
There is a difference between a shepherd and an auditor — and the people around us already know which one we are.
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