March 18

Today's Reading: Job 42:7-9

This week we'll finish up our study of Job. We only have a few verses to cover this week so the readings will be short. If you need to use the time to catch up if you've gotten behind.

In this passage, God rebukes Job's three "friends". There are a couple of interesting things in these verses:

• God does not rebuke Elihu. Even though he didn't get everything right either, we do see that he focuses on God's sovereignty and greatness much more than Job's other three friends. 
• Job never got everything right either. He even accused God of being  unjust. This reminds me a lot of some of the lament Psalms.

Overall the sense I get is that both Elihu and Job really had a heart that desired to know and please God, whereas the three friends seemed more concerned with finding fault with Job and elevating themselves. There is a lot we can learn from that!