The question of the eleventh verse--"Are the consolations of God too small for thee?"--is intended to cover the whole of the arguments already used by the friends and is arrogant enough as implying a Divine commission exercised by them. "The word that dealt tenderly with thee," says Eliphaz; but Job has his own idea of the tenderness and seems to convey it by an expressive gesture or glance which provokes a retort almost angry from the speaker,-- "_Why doth thine heart carry thee away, And why do thine eyes wink, That thou turnest thy breathing against God, And sendest words out of thy mouth?_" We may understand a brief emphatic word of repudiation not unmixed with contempt and, at the same time, not easy to lay hold of. Eliphaz now feels that he may properly insist on the wickedness of man--painfully illustrated in Job himself--and depict the certain fate of him who defies the Almighty and trusts in his own "vanity." The passage is from first to last repetition, but has new colour of the quasi-prophetic kind and a certain force and eloquence that give it fresh interest. Formerly Eliphaz had said, "Shall man be just beside God? Behold He putteth no trust in His servants, and His angels He chargeth with folly." Now, with a keener emphasis, and adopting Job's own confession that man born of woman is impure, he asserts the doctrine of creaturely imperfection and human corruption. "_Eloah trusteth not in His holy ones, And the heavens are not pure in His sight; How much less the abominable and corrupt, Man, who drinketh iniquity as water!_"