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Elihu is
emboldened in this passage. However, he
is young. Elihu returns to the tried and
tried – and still wrong – approach that Job is wrong. Job can’t be righteous because calamity has
befallen him. Job can’t be righteous
because God doesn’t do an unjust act.
Elihu assumes that Job’s circumstances are proof of his guilt.
Unfortunately,
what Elihu is showing us is that sometimes we talk to much and don’t listen
enough. Elihu should have listened to
his own words! Only two chapters ago
Elihu was onto something. Elihu opened
up the possibility that there was something else going on that nobody had
considered. How quickly has Elihu forgotten
his own advice and returned to human logic!
The reality
is that God hasn’t punished Job. This isn’t
a trial at all. God is proving how
faithful Job will be, even when faced with the worst consequence possible short
of death. Job is a case study, not a
criminal.
What a
powerful reminder. How often do we think
that when life is going well that it is proof of our proximity to God? How often do we think that when our life goes
poorly it is proof of God’s distance from us?
How much better would it be to remember that God is always ear to us and
to have an eternal focus!
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