In Job, chapter four, verse thirteen, it is not said that Eliphaz’s visions were from God: In fact, they were not from God, for they described Him as unconcerned about humankind, as in verses seventeen through twenty-one. To build theology on dreams and visions that cannot be supported by God’s written revelation is unrighteous and completely wrong.
Eliphaz relates a vision. When we are communing with our hearts, and are still, as in Psalms four, verse four, then is a time for the Holy Spirit to commune with us. This vision put him into very great fear. Ever since man sinned, it has been terrible to him to receive communications from Heaven, conscious that he can expect no good tidings thence. Sinful man! Shall a person pretend to be more just, more pure, than God, who being his Maker, is his Lord and Owner? How dreadful, then, the pride and presumption of a human! How great the patience of God! Look upon humans in this life. The very foundation of that cottage of clay in which a human dwells, is in the dust, and it will sink with its weight.
We stand but upon the dust. Some have a higher heap of dust to stand upon than others but still, it is the earth that keeps us up, and will shortly swallow us up. A person is soon crushed; or if some lingering distemper, which consumes like a moth, is sent to destroy him, he cannot resist it. Shall such a creature pretend to blame the appointments of God? Look upon man in his death. Life is short, and in a short time, men are cut off. Beauty, strength, and learning, not only cannot secure them from death, but these things die with them; nor shall their pomp, their wealth, or power, continue after them. Shall a weak, sinful, dying creature, pretend to be more just than God, and purer than his Maker? No: instead of quarreling with his afflictions, let the person wonder that they are out of hell.
Can a man be cleansed without his Maker? Will God justify sinful mortals, and clear them from guilt? or will they do so without their having an interest in the righteousness and gracious help of their promised Redeemer, when angels, once ministering spirits before his throne, receive the just recompense of their sins? Notwithstanding the seeming impunity of men for a short time, though living without God in the world, their doom is as certain as that of the fallen angels and is continually overtaking them. Yet careless sinners note it so little, that they expect not the change, nor are wise to consider their latter end.