(7) В¶ And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Observe how this is worded. The LORD doth not give sentence against those three men, until that he had first spoken to his servant Job: but, after that the LORD had brought Job into the state the LORD had intended, then, and not before, he proceeds to the reproof of Job's three friends. So that Job was cleared from hypocrisy though found in sin; and the LORD acknowledged him for his servant. Sweet consideration! though, as Elias was, a man of like passions, yet accepted in JESUS.