Scripture Thought (What I Learned):
Chapter 36: The Wicked Die without Knowledge
“Suffer
me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God’s behalf”
(Job 36:2) Apparently Elihu saw that his listeners were becoming
uncomfortable with his condemnation. He begs for them to keep listening, and
insists that he is speaking on God’s behalf.
God
is mighty and with wisdom, Elihu again promoted the ideas of God’s power and
perfect justice. In His perfect justice, God punishes the wicked and
works for the oppressed. Since Job often said and felt that God was
ignoring him, Elihu is clearly counting Job among the wicked. In Elihu’s mind,
the freedom God has for the righteous does not belong to Job because Job is not
among the righteous.
Elihu
continues to berate Job and considered Job a hypocrite for continuing to deny
his guilt. He felt Job was putting himself under a greater and greater
outpouring of God’s wrath.
“Behold,
God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched
out” (Job 36:26). Elihu continues to expound on how great and power God
is, insulting Job’s own knowledge and wisdom.
Chapter 37: God Controls Nature and Science
Elihu felt that Job needed a good
dose of the greatness of God. So he continues to impress upon him te great
power and wonders of God. Elihu explains that man hears the thunder and through
that hears the voice of God. Again, insulting Job’s knowledge of the Lord, it
was good advice wrongly applied to Job’s situation. This chapter to me,
explains that God in his greatness controls nature and science, because he
invented it!
“By
the breath of God frost is given…” (Job 37:10), we can’t take this
verse literally… but I like how this shows that nature is controlled by the
Lord.
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