Job 32-34: Who Are You, Elihu?

Bible Book Club

Susan Merrill & Heather Rubio

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🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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When life feels like God has gone silent and everything seems unfair, how do you keep believing He's still good? Job has defended his innocence, the three friends have finally run out of arguments, and an eerie silence has fallen over the city gate. Then a young man named Elihu steps out of the crowd, and he is furious. Furious at Job for questioning God. Furious at the friends for failing to prove their case. And absolutely convinced he has the answer everyone else has missed. But does...

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0:00.0	This is the Bible Book Club, the book club.
0:02.6	The Book of Job.
0:04.2	Welcome to the club.
0:13.0	Last episode in chapters 28 through 31, the debate ended.
0:18.0	And for the first time in the book of Job, nobody was arguing. The scene shifted
0:23.0	from the courtroom to a man alone and lost in thought. What followed was one of the most beautiful
0:28.4	poems in the Bible, the wisdom poem. Job compared the search for wisdom to mining, but concluded
0:34.0	that wisdom cannot be mined, cannot be bought, and cannot be found in the land of the living.
0:39.0	So where does wisdom come from?
0:40.8	In God alone.
0:42.1	And how does one attain it?
0:43.8	The fear of the Lord.
0:45.6	That is wisdom.
0:46.5	And to shun evil is understanding.
0:48.7	That's what Job said.
0:49.7	And he was right.
0:50.9	In chapters 29 through 31, Job built his final defense by first remembering the
0:56.9	blessings of the past, then lamenting the suffering of the president, and then swearing a formal
1:02.3	oath of innocence. Then he signed his name to his defense and demanded that the Almighty
1:08.2	answer him. The words of Job were ended.
1:11.3	He didn't break.
1:12.5	He had passed the test of the accuser and then silence at the city gate.
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