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Job 42:
Is there any hermeneutical principle that would determine how much of Job's friends' speeches should be taken as divine instruction?
This question is based on the same fallacy. I would not try to find any such general principle, except to decide on a case-by-case basis. People who like to generalize tend to overdo it. That was their mistake.
That was the divine assessment of the three friends' speeches. Still, they sometimes spoke partial truth. Their problem was that they overstated and overgeneralized their case. The book demonstrated the complexity of the issues involved and the fallacy of over-simplistic analysis. Job was also wrong at times. Overall, he was more right than his friends, and he was the one who had experienced actual suffering.7 After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: "My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
Is there any hermeneutical principle that would determine how much of Job's friends' speeches should be taken as divine instruction?
This question is based on the same fallacy. I would not try to find any such general principle, except to decide on a case-by-case basis. People who like to generalize tend to overdo it. That was their mistake.