Enter Elihu - God's Prophetic Voice, Job 32:1-5
Job 32-37 The words of Job and his friends are ended. They have not been able to convince Job that their theology is flawless – that Job is suffering because of sin and he must repent in order to come back to right standing with God. Job has ended his words with a challenge to God to prove that he is wrong. In his mind, because he has not sinned he does not deserve to suffer. It seems God has been unfair and unjust in his dealings. At this point we would expect the Lord to answer Job, perhaps in thunder and lightning. But that would indicate that Job has forced God to do his bidding. Instead we see another character introduced through a short prose paragraph, 32:1-5. Enter Elihu, one of the most maligned characters in all the Bible, at least by the commentators. But if we study the text and the co...