קח נא מפיו תורה, שלא תבחר בנימוסים השכליים, רק לקבל תורה האלהית הבאה בנבואה, ושים אמריו בלבבך, שלבבך הבוחר ורוצה, לא ישמע לאמרי הגוף והנאותיו לעשות לטובת עצמו ולתועלתו, רק יהיה כאילו אמרי ה' שוכנים בלבבך והם הבוחרים ופוקדים על האיברים לעשות כמצות ה' בלי שום פניה חיצונית: Eliphaz calls on Job to repent. Not to rely just on his own intellect but to accept God's instruction instead. Not to listen only to what his body tells him but to fill his mind with God's instruction instead. Elevating his spirit over his flesh, and not the other way round. Making his mind master over his body, instructing it to act in accordance with God's wishes.3Eliphaz's call to Job that he repent and return to God is one of the moments of greatest irony in the whole drama. For it presupposes that Job has sinned or was wicked but we the readers know that God had declared that 'there is no-one like him on earth; such a sincere and upright man; God-fearing, and one who shuns wrongdoing' (Ch. 1:8).
Furthermore, if we turn to the end of the book (Ch. 42:7-8) we find that it is in fact Eliphaz and his two friends who had spoken ill of God:
And it was after the Lord had finished speaking to Job that the Lord spoke to Eliphaz the Temanite: 'I am angry with you and your two friends, for you did not speak correctly of Me as did my servant Job. So now, take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and render a burnt-offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you, for I will accede to him and not deal harshly with you for not speaking correctly of Me, as did my servant Job.'
Eliphaz might have a good answer for the workings of Governance but it is not the answer to Job's plight. We the readers will still ask why God had to prove His assessment to be right? Was it not sufficient that He had declared that Job was 'a sincere and upright man ...'? Did He not know how he would react to pain? Why did He have to prove Himself? What right does Satan have to question God's evaluations?