Elihu continues to rebuke Job for how he is responding to the trial he is under. Job has said that God did all this for no reason but God IS just. The fact that Job has contended with God is what has Elihu angry with him. Job keeps asking for a chance to speak with […]
Job has proclaimed himself upright in heart to his friends. And he has said that God was being mean to him. Elihu rebukes Job and sets him straight. Elihu starts with recounting all Job’s words. He starts with Job’s initial complaint, “I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in […]
We have been watching and listening to Job and his three friends discuss his situation. But there is a fifth man who has been present all along. It’s his turn to speak. I did not remember this man being in the stories I heard, learned or even read previously. I have no idea why he […]
Job finishes his defense. He poses his final defense of himself to his friends and to God. And he also added a LOT of ‘ifs’ in his defense. When I first glanced at this chapter I noticed the ‘ifs’ spread all over the pages. Without reading it I assumed that Job was covering his bases […]
Job is spent. He looks back at how things were back ‘then’; when he was walking in victory. And he compares it to ‘now’ when he is in the agony of defeat. The things Job says he did for others is impressive. He lists several for us in chapter 29.
