Luke 13:2-3 → Job 4:7

When told of Galileans slaughtered by Pilate, Jesus rejects the reflex that equates calamity with special guilt: "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? No, I tell you" (Luke 13:2-3). Job 4:7 is the classic Old Testament statement of the retribution theology Jesus overturns: Eliphaz asks, "Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright destroyed?" — assuming that suffering is proof of sin. The connection is Contrast: what Eliphaz asserted as a fixed law, and what the book of Job as a whole exposes as false comfort, Jesus flatly denies. Suffering is not a scoreboard of guilt; and the right response to another's calamity is not diagnosis but self-examination — "unless you repent, you too will all perish." The telos is Christ: the one truly innocent Man did perish, undoing Eliphaz's calculus forever — the Upright One destroyed not for His own sin but for ours (Isaiah 53:9-10), so that the tower need not fall on us. His cross is at once the summons to repent and the refuge for all who do.