Job 32:6-9

Older people are usually wiser than young people. Older people have learned many valuable lessons in their long lives.

But there is a difference between human wisdom and God’s wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:18-19; 1 Corinthians 1:27). So we need God’s Holy Spirit to teach us about God (1 Corinthians 2:9-12). Job had complained that his friends were not speaking by the Holy Spirit (Job 26:4). So their statements about God were not always accurate (Job 25:6).

Elihu did not want to copy their error. So he would speak by the power of the Holy Spirit. Elihu would only speak the things that God taught him (Job 36:3).

Elihu asks the three friends to listen carefully

v10 So, I will speak. Listen to me! I shall tell you what I know.

v11 I waited while you spoke. I listened to your speeches, while you tried to say the right words. v12 I listened carefully. But you did not prove that Job is wrong. You could not answer his words.

v13 Do not say, ‘We are wise!’ Do not say, ‘God, not man, will prove that Job is wrong!’

v14 But Job has not accused me. And I will not answer him with your words.