In Job 15:7–8 (ESV), Eliphaz, one of Job’s friends, asks Job some intriguing questions: “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills? Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?” The questions are obviously rhetorical. By using contrast, they each anticipate an answer of no. Of course Job was not the first man—Adam was. Job had not listened in the council of God (Hebrew: sod eloah), but the rhetorical contrast implies that Adam had listened in the council of God.
