Job 5:12 says, He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.  I believe that Eliphaz was again proclaiming that evil, or crafty, people will never prosper for long before God will punish them.  I believe he was applying this to Job's life.  He was saying that Job had prospered for a while, but God had struck him down due to his sinfulness.  This is the danger of a prosperity gospel.  If God is making us rich in the eyes of the world due to our goodness, then if any trouble comes God must be punishing us for sin in our lives.  We need to acknowledge that material blessings do not mean we are faithfully following God, nor does the lack of material blessings mean that we are guilty of sin.  Verse thirteen adds, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.  Eliphaz was still speaking of material possessions and God's will.  I believe he was saying that people might become rich by their own craftiness, but eventually God would strike them down.  Verse fourteen continues, They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.  I believe that Eliphaz was saying that those who did not rely on God for their well-being were not able to see the truth of God.  They were stumbling around in darkness, unable to see the light.  We today stumble around in darkness until we see the Light, Jesus Christ.  When we accept Christ as Savior and Lord, we live in the light of God.  Verse fifteen states, But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.  Eliphaz told Job that God took care of the poor when they were confronted by the mighty.  We today would do better to look to God for strength and deliverance than to look to the powers of the world.  I believe that Eliphaz was also telling Job that since he was suffering so greatly that he must not be following God's will for his life.  We must never equate material blessings and power with the fact that someone is following God's will.  Verse sixteen adds, So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.  Eliphaz said that the poor had hope in God.  I believe that he was saying that though he believed that Job had brought suffering on himself that Job could look to God in hope, even though he was now very definitely poor.  Verse seventeen continues, Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:  Eliphaz said that Job should be happy because God was correcting, or chastising, him and that Job certainly had no right to complain about it.  If we know for sure that we are suffering because God is using this to correct some sin in our life, we should be happy.  We are told that those whom God loves He chastises.  Still, we cannot make the assumption that Eliphaz did, which was that all suffering must be caused by God correcting us for sin in our lives.  Verse eighteen says, For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.  Eliphaz said that even though God wounded and made someone sore, that God would also restore them.  I believe the implication was that this would happen when they acknowledged their sin.  We cannot assume that if a Christian is suffering today that it is because God is correcting or chastising them, and they simply need to confess whatever sin may be in their life to be restored.  We are told that we can expect to be reviled and persecuted because of our faith in God.  Verse nineteen adds, He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.  I believe that he was telling Job that God would deliver him if he simply repented, no matter how bad the suffering, and it would be done to keep evil from destroying him.  Verse twenty continues, In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.  Eliphaz said that God would deliver us from death in famine and war if we were faithful to Him.  We know that God will indeed deliver us spiritually from death through Christ, but that does not mean that we will not suffer physically due to our faith in Him.  Just as Christ was the suffering Servant, so must we be also.