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 shows 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're all kind of self-righteous.

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

whole back and forth from everyone,

and he's been holding his tongue, perhaps out of some humility, since he's 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 turns out that these three older men have nothing good to say, so he speaks 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 believes God has advanced his wisdom beyond his years, and we'll have to

wait a little longer to see if we think he's 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 33, he goes on to rebuke Job, even though he initially approaches it

with a little more gentleness than the other three did. He says, my pressure will not be heavy

upon 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 said Job had claimed to be without transgression, and Job

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