He refers to points made earlier by Job and the other three friends. Elihu speaks for six chapters with no response from Job.
But the natural flow is broken by the speeches of a new, younger counselor named Elihu. The dialogues are over and one would expect to move on to the God speeches in chapters 38-41. The Emergence of a Fourth Counselor Named Elihu (Job 32-37) Now he concludes this section of the book with a closing monologue in which he longs for the “good old days,” defends his innocence, and continues to wonder why so many terrible things happened to him, since he did not deserve them. Job had begun the conversation with his friends by opening with a lament (chapter 3). The main point (to be expressed more fully by God later in the book) is that human wisdom, though wonderful, is limited and only God can truly know wisdom.
It is uncertain who the speaker is–Job or one of his friends or the editor of the book. This chapter seems to interrupt the flow of the book. Along with other biblical passages, it teaches, “The fear of the… More Poem (Job 28) The Old Testament book of Proverbs, which sometimes invokes a Woman as the personification of Wisdom, is a collection of aphorisms and moral teachings. Wisdom Wisdom encompasses the qualities of experience, knowledge, and good judgment. There is no speech by the third counselor, Zophar, in this cycle. There is much repetition and even confusion about who is talking as the dialogues wind down. The question of whether or not wicked people will ever be punished now enters into their disagreements about God’s justice. The tension between Job and his three friends grows as they become more condemning of Job, and he becomes more defensive. After each speaks, Job answers by rejecting their theorizing about him. Job’s three friends take turns trying to interpret Job’s suffering to him. He wishes he had never been born, but since it is too late to change that, he wants God to let him die. Job’s Lament (Job 3)Īfter a week of silence, Job opens his mouth and curses the day of his birth. Job laments and enters into dialogue with three friends.
Then three friends come to bring Job comfort. The prologue introduces the reader to Job, tells of two conversations between God and Satan in heaven, and recounts the tragedies that come to Job in two stages.
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