March 4
Today's Reading: Job 32:1-22
In chapter 32, a young man named Elihu, whose name means “He is my God”, appears on the scene. Because he is younger than the others, he has been listening to this entire conversation, waiting to speak until the others are finished. His discourse continues all the way through the end of chapter 37 without even one interruption by Job.
Elihu does say some of the same things the three friends said and there are certainly some things in his speech that are hard to understand. And he is no doubt tough on Job, perhaps harder than he should have been, possibly because he was angry with Job and his three friends. But Elihu does definitely present something new in his discourse. He disputes both the argument of the three friends that Job’s trials were a result of his sin as well as Job’s assertion that God’s actions were merely arbitrary.
In chapter 32, a young man named Elihu, whose name means “He is my God”, appears on the scene. Because he is younger than the others, he has been listening to this entire conversation, waiting to speak until the others are finished. His discourse continues all the way through the end of chapter 37 without even one interruption by Job.
Elihu does say some of the same things the three friends said and there are certainly some things in his speech that are hard to understand. And he is no doubt tough on Job, perhaps harder than he should have been, possibly because he was angry with Job and his three friends. But Elihu does definitely present something new in his discourse. He disputes both the argument of the three friends that Job’s trials were a result of his sin as well as Job’s assertion that God’s actions were merely arbitrary.
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