Eliphaz's Accusation (Job 22)

Do we accuse others falsely without evidence, just assuming they have done wrong? Let’s look at Job 22.

Has Eliphaz escalated to accusing Job directly of massive wickedness?

Then Eliphaz from Teman answered: Can a human being be useful to God? Can an intelligent person bring profit? Does the Almighty delight in your innocence? Does he gain when you perfect your ways? Does he rebuke you for your piety, bring you in for judgment? Isn’t your wickedness massive, your iniquity endless? (Job 22:1-5 CEB)

Does Eliphaz begin to get rather specific with his accusations completely without evidence?

To guarantee payment of a debt, you have taken clothes from innocent people. And you refused bread and water to the hungry and thirsty, although you were rich, respected, and powerful. You have turned away widows and have broken the arms of orphans. That's why you were suddenly trapped by terror, blinded by darkness, and drowned in a flood. (Job 22:6-11 CEV)

As under the old way people were snatched away by a great flood, does Eliphaz accuse Job of receiving just punishment for sins?

Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are! But you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness? Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.’ Will you keep to the old way that wicked men have trod? They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away. They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’ Yet he filled their houses with good things—but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent one mocks at them, saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off, and what they left the fire has consumed.’ (Job 22:12-20 ESV)

Does Eliphaz urge Job to come to terms with God, to return to the Almighty, to banish injustice and his prayers will be heard?

Come to terms with God and be at peace; in this way good will come to you. Receive instruction from His mouth, and place His sayings in your heart. If you return to the Almighty, you will be renewed. If you banish injustice from your tent and consign your gold to the dust, the gold of Ophir to the stones in the wadis, the Almighty will be your gold and your finest silver. Then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God. You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows. When you make a decision, it will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways. When others are humiliated and you say, “Lift them up,” God will save the humble. He will even rescue the guilty one, who will be rescued by the purity of your hands. (Job 22:21-30 HCSB)

Is there another accuser, who will one day be thrown out?

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say, “Now the salvation, the power, the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah have come. For the one who accuses our brothers, who accuses them day and night in the presence of our God, has been thrown out. (Rev 12:10 ISV)

Do we accuse others falsely without evidence, just assuming they have done wrong? You decide!