Kommentar zu Ijow 7:2

As a slave who longs for the shadow As a slave, who toils all day through and longs and yearns, “When will the shadow of evening come?” And as a hireling, who hopes for his wages at eventide, because the whole day was to him for toil, and he yearns for the sunset.

However, whether a person's perfection depends on his life-span or his productivity, he cannot work towards it if he is bed-ridden or totally distraught. How then can Eliphaz argue that it is because of God's love for the righteous man and because He wishes him to correct the shortcomings in his service of God, that He purges him of sin through suffering, for he is thereby precluded from serving Him at all? He is not only prevented from correcting his previous shortcomings but falls even further behind in his pursuit of perfection.