Job again hears from his friend Eliphaz.  From the way these “friends” talk to Job, you would never know they were his friends at all.  Job gives his honest opinion about them: “I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.” (Job 16:2)  We cannot always understand other people’s situation, but we can be comforters to them just as God is a comforter to us.  “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.” (2Corinthians 1:3-4)

Today’s reading: Job 14-16