Kommentar zu Ijow 15:18

That the wise men tell and confess their transgression. and do not hide their iniquity from their fathers. This is what I saw, and behold, I will tell you. Now where did I see it? Judah confessed and was not ashamed in the incident of Tamar. Reuben confessed and was not ashamed in the incident of Bilhah. And what was their reward?

Rejecting Job's denial of free-will, Eliphaz cites those thinkers who have asserted that our sense of self tells us that we have free-will..¹Verses 18 and 19 are difficult. Many commentators see them as being a parenthetical remark, the verses being interposed by Eliphaz to endorse his doctrine. They translate the Hebrew term מאבותם in v.18 as 'from their fathers'. However, Malbim regards the word מאבותם as deriving from the root אבה meaning desire or will, and explains it as expressing the primary will which is the 'father' of all actions.