Our reading challenge for the day is Job 32-37. I’ll hit a few highlights. You make comments too and fill in the gaps. What strikes you as specially significant?
Job 32 - We meet a new character, Elihu. He is young but says he has wisdom and will speak briefly.
Job 33 - Elihu clearly claims righteousness and that God is speaking to Job through him.
Job 34 - Elihu defends God’s righteousness. Then he says we receive what we deserve. Therefore Job must be a sinner.
Job 35 - Elihu continues (notice he has now spoken longer than anyone else) by telling Job that his sin or righteousness doesn’t matter much to God because God judges differently than man.
Job 36 - God is the mighty one who, Elihu says, has given his wisdom and made him righteous. Because he blesses the righteous (like Elihu) and does not seem to be blessing Job, Job must be unrighteous.
Job 37 - Elihu continues by looking at God’s power. As he views God through this lens, he cannot see God’s mercy and grace.
In all his attempts to explain God based on his observations, Elihu manages only to create a false god, one who is capricious and self-centered. Yet in Jesus, God has revealed himself as the God of all mercy and grace.
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