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 knew 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 Elai who 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 six.

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 we'll 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. I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.

He seems to stay humble in his approach to rebuking Job, unlike Job's other friends.

Elihu gets a few things wrong in his rebuke of Job, though. In verse 9, he says Job had claimed to be without transgression, and Job never actually claimed that.

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