JOB 32-37. SPEECH OF ELIHU. Reasons have already been given in the Introduction for regarding this as a later addition to the poem. The point of view of Elihu is very much that of Eliphaz, viz. that suffering is disciplinary. If it is rightly accepted, and its lesson learned, God will graciously res... [ Continue Reading ]
Elihu trembles at this. Listen to the thunder. First the lightning flashes (Job 37:3) then the thunder follows (Job 37:4 f.). Job 37:2 suggests that a thunderstorm was actually taking place while Elihu was speaking, and many see in this a preparation for the manifestation of Yahweh in ch. 38. It is... [ Continue Reading ]
Job is invited to consider God's wonders. Does he know how God lays His charge upon them, _i.e._ probably the phenomena just described by Elihu in Job 37:1? Does he understand the flashing of the lightning, the balancing of the clouds, the warmth and stillness accompanying the sirocco? Can he spread... [ Continue Reading ]
How can he, whose mind is dark, address God? Shall I invite Him to converse and court destruction? (Job 37:19 f.). In Job 37:21 follow _mg._ And now men cannot look on the light when it is bright in the skies when the wind hath passed and cleansed them (_i.e._ when it has cleared away the clouds). B... [ Continue Reading ]