Job 35 “Songs in the Night”

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Elihu’s arguments centers on the following:

In terms of utility there is nothing God can gain from man. Consider his line of thought that his words carry in vv.6-9

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?/ Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

He argues in vv.14-15 that Job impatience to be justified has caused him to level unfair charges against God.

Here we have a secondary line of thrust he develops in vv.10-12 ‘Surely God will not hear vanity’ which as we shall see God rebuts when He answers them out of the whirlwind in Ch.38

God teaches man more than beasts also gives a…

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Job 34 “wisdom of man”

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“If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;/ All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust”.

Elihu is loquacious and his idea of wisdom is setting God for argument’s sake in position that was contrary to His nature. God is not man that He should repent. Here we have the verse to establish the truth. “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?(Nu.23:19)” How shall man know God unless it were given to him? God’s breath is His gift. His calling and gifts are irrevocable. His Power and Wisdom are unsearchable to which we shall come by and by so Elihu was merely sounding more righteous…

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Job 33 “In God’s stead”

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 It is evident from his lengthy preamble that Elihu wants to force a confession from Job that he is a sinner. Consider vv.27-28

“He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;/ He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light(vv.27-28)”.

His error was that he was placing his own case as typical of every one else.

“My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly./ The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life(vv.3-4)”. His claim to be his mentor is that ‘I am also formed out of the clay’ and his spirit has endowed him the right credentials to bring him back to life.

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