Job 5-7

These chapters take me longer to read because of the way it's written.  Sometimes it's a monologue, sometimes a dialogue, and the speech is littered with proverbs and rhetorical questions.  The back and forth dialogue with Eliphaz and Job continues.  Eliphaz suggests that Job present his case to God, but also assumes that Job did something wrong to deserve his punishment.  Job is trying to get Eliphaz to see it from his point of view, and also trying to justify his right to complain.  Then he tells points out the Eliphaz hasn't helped him out because Eliphaz is afraid.  The Job cries out to God and says he would rather die than to continue suffering.