If you lay gold in the dust, then the Almighty will be your gold, for then you will delight

yourself in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.

Those are the words of Elphaz. He was a friend of Job. Job had lost in death all of his

life, wife had lost either through death or being stolen all of his livestock.

His wife had turned against God.

And now Alephas and Bill Daddens turned against God.

And now Alephas and Bill Dad and Zofar,

his three friends, had come, and they had sat with him

in sackcloth and ashes and in silence for seven days. And now they are speaking in Job 22, 24 to 26. If you lay gold in the dust, the Almighty will be your gold, and then you will

delight yourself in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.

Now, when Job's trial was over,

Chapter 42, when his trial was over,

this is what God said to Elphas.

The Lord said to Elphas the Tamanite, my anger burns against you and against

your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, more beautiful, than to say if you lay gold in the dust, the Almighty will be your gold and you will delight

yourself in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.

I regard that sentence as true.

Right, beautiful. And when Alephas spoke it, God was angry at him. So why? Would it anger God for Elphas to say, if God is not your gold you're an idolator. If you're delighting in gold

more than God, what's wrong is wrong is that

is that Elphas used those words to indict Job.

V. 23, just before those verses, if you, Job, if you return to the Almighty, assuming

he's not with him.

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