Today, I am reading and commenting on Job 29-33.

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One of the things about the Book of Job that makes it difficult is that if you have not read it before, or have not read it recently enough to remember the ending, you might forget that Job’s friends, Eliphaz. Bildaz, and Zophar, were in the wrong in what they said.  The first hint of that we get in today’s passage.  In fact, it took me several years of reading through the Book of Job each year to realize that Elihu, who makes his first and only appearance in today’s passage, is the only man in the book who is not called out be God at the end to at least some extent.  Elihu is younger than the other four men, which is why he did not speak up sooner.  Elihu was angry at the other three friends of Job because they had no answer to what Job had to say.  And he was angry at Job because Job justified himself rather than God.  Which shows us one of the key points of the Book of Job.  Even when we suffer we should see and focus on God’s glory and recognize that His actions are just.  We should act as Job did at first; humbly praise and glorify God, accepting and being happy and content with what He has given us.

The fact that Elihu is not rebuked in any way by God when God speaks to Job and his friends makes me look closer at what Elihu says.  Earlier in the book, Job said to his friends, and by inclination to everyone else, that he was not inferior to them in any way. I said when we came across that in our study a few days ago that that was true.  Here Elihu explicitly says that Job need not fear him because he, Elihu was not better than Job.  He stands no closer to and no further from God than Job.  That is the first thing Elihu says to which we should pay careful heed; we are no better and no worse than our fellow man (I know that I said that Job implied this when he said he was not inferior to his friends.  Now I am not so sure I was correct).  The second thing which Elihu challenges Job on is that Job said that God does not answer Job’s questions.  Elihu tells us that the problem is not that God does not speak.  The problem is that we do not listen.  God is speaking and telling us what He wants from us.  We need to learn to listen.  I need to learn to listen.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.