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Podcast Introduction Our reading today is Job 15-16, and I’m calling the episode “Unfounded Accusations”.  Comments on Job 15-16 Chapter 15 In chapter 15, Eliphaz is as hard on Job as he was in his first go-round. Again he makes unfounded accusations against Job. Accusations of empty talk, iniquity, lying. He continues by saying that Job is arrogant and self centered and deluded, and he tells Job that his future is indeed going to be grim. I suppose that Eliphaz’s motivation for this attack is to cause Job to turn away from his errant ways, but since Job is not the person that he is accused of being, Eliphaz’s words are nothing more than hurtful and foolish. Oh that we are not ever in Eliphaz’s shoes when our friends need us. Let us prayerfully consider our words, and ask God to help us see them as He sees them. Then we will speak words of love and salvation. Chapter 16 In chapter 16, Job finally tells his friends how he would be speaking to one of them if the tables were switched. He