{"id":15865,"date":"2025-07-22T12:56:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15865"},"modified":"2025-07-23T13:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:03:27","slug":"question-concerning-job-1510","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15865\/question-concerning-job-1510\/","title":{"rendered":"Question concerning J\u200bob 15:10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pastor\u00a0John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;m just curious.\u00a0 In the verse below, I assume that Eliphaz the Temanite is referring to men who were older than Job\u2019s father.\u00a0 Is that correct?\u00a0\u00a0Do you think this implies Job&#8217;s father was still alive?\u00a0\u00a0Or does this just imply that Eliphaz the Temanite was older than Job?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Job 15:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">10: Both the hoary-headed and aged are with us, much older than your father.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wendell<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">=========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hi Wendell.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I have never understood that verse to mean that Job&#8217;s father was still alive, but it is possible.\u00a0 We are not given that information in the book of Job.\u00a0 Neither are we told the age of Job&#8217;s three friends, including Eliphaz.\u00a0 I have always taken that comment as referring to elderly men who were there with Eliphaz and his two companions (&#8220;with\u00a0<u>us<\/u>&#8220;).\u00a0 But again, we are not given that information.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor\u00a0John, I&#8217;m just curious.\u00a0 In the verse below, I assume that Eliphaz the Temanite is referring to men who were older than Job\u2019s father.\u00a0 Is that correct?\u00a0\u00a0Do you think this implies Job&#8217;s father was still alive?\u00a0\u00a0Or does this just imply that Eliphaz the Temanite was older than Job? Job 15: 10: Both the hoary-headed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15868,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15865\/revisions\/15868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}