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OK, I think I get it

visioncgbc | April 17, 2008 10:35

I received this comment from the blog I just posted:

"'I've never thought about Elihu's words being a "smokescreen to judge." His words have seemed to me to resound with truth. I've always wondered why, in the end (Job 42:7,9) the name of Elihu (which translates "it was God indeed") is not included with those whom the Lord chastises. Why, if he is guilty of judgment, is he not reprimanded by the LORD as well?"

Do you know that I have never "got" that Elihu wasn't in that grouping? Thank you so much for sharing. So, I think if I'm understanding, the three friends spoke and Job spoke back, and then the younger Elihu listened and spoke as best he could the heart of Christ. The friend were speaking of a God that maybe they knew about but didn't know. 32:1 So these three men stoped amnsering Job, 32 1-5 Job's three friends now fell silent. They were talked out, stymied because Job wouldn't budge an inch—wouldn't admit to an ounce of guilt. Then Elihu lost his temper. (Elihu was the son of Barakel the Buzite from the clan of Ram.) He blazed out in anger against Job for pitting his righteousness against God's. He was also angry with the three friends because they had neither come up with an answer nor proved Job wrong. Elihu had waited with Job while they spoke because they were all older than he. But when he saw that the three other men had exhausted their arguments, he exploded with pent-up anger.

His anger with Job was because Job dared to compare his rightousness with God's?? That was not found offensive by God.

Thanks very much for explaing this to me.

Gina