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Job’s innocence is questioned after Satan convinces God to allow him to test Job’s faith. Satan takes his family, health, and possessions away from him. His friends Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, who have come to Job’s house to console him, all doubt his innocence and believe that he has probably done something to deserve this punishment. At Job’s house, the first of his friends to speak is Eliphaz the Temanite. He begins to comfort Job by telling him, “…you have strengthened the weak hands” (Job 4:3). He tells Job that he has helped others in the past. However, Eliphaz then asks, “…who that was innocent ever perished?” (Job 4:7). Eliphaz says the innocent are never punished and the wicked perish by the wrath of God. In his statement, Eliphaz subtly questions the innocence of Job himself. By saying the innocent are not punished, he suggests Job