Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

Today for the first time in almost a week of reading, someone new showed up on the scene.

And what we know about him right away is that he's very angry.

Elihu, this new angry man, is angry not only at Job, but also at Job's three friends

because they were all kind of self-righteous.

Chapter 32 verse 4 makes it sound like Elihu had been there all along listening to the

whole back and forth from everyone and had been holding his tongue.

Perhaps out of some humility since he was younger than everyone else, but also out of fear

of man as we find out in verse 6.

But then after listening to them all talk, it turned out that these three older men

had nothing good to say, so he spoke up.

Age doesn't always equal wisdom and youth doesn't always equal foolishness.

Elihu points out in verse 8 that it's God, not time, who grants wisdom.

It doesn't only come via time and life experience.

Sometimes those are the means God uses, but sometimes he just dispenses wisdom at will.

And for Elihu, he believed God had advanced his wisdom beyond his years, and will have

to wait a little longer to see if we think he was right.

He starts out by rebuking Job's three friends and telling them that in all their speeches

they were never able to offer a proper rebuttal to what Job said.

Then in chapter 3, he goes on to rebuke Job, even though he approaches it initially with

a little more gentleness than the other three did.

He says, My pressure will not be heavy on you.

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