God confronts the argument by which Job had contended with God in matters of justice. He hypothetically invites Job to take the throne, scepter and crown for a moment to see if he can rightly judge all humanity for a moment.
Then God goes back to focus on His creation of two extraordinary creatures, the first of which is the Behemoth who is the “first of the ways of God”.
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As Elihu’s words end, there is a veritable baton pass to God in a relay race to bring Job to a place of humility.
God confront Job from a whirlwind in the first 2 of 3 arguments pointing out Job’s pride and God’s rightness!
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Elihu begins to break down Job’s defenses.
First he dismantles his prideful assumptions.
Then he introduces the notion that Job’s trials are tests of his character/
Next he suggests that the reason why Job has not seen God in all of this is because he was looking in the wrong place, that sometimes in the suffering and afflictions that God sometimes reveals Himself.
Finally Elihu encourages Job to consider that God is all around him in all the displays of his wonders and power seen throughout creation.
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Job has ended his arguments and his friends are done tyring to convince him of their views. Job has become self-righteous and accusatory at God.
God desires to justify his servant, and bring his trials to a quick end, but He must procure Job’s humility first for God’s grace only comes to the humble. Those in pride He will actively resist.
So in steps the young man Elihu, who begins to provide a context for another way of viewing his difficulties. Elihu becomes a spiritual covering for Job serving him in the capacity of a mediator and intercessor!
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These chapters cover Job’s last lines of defense he offers in rebuttal to Bildad and by extension to his other two friends as well.
Job sees himself in favorable light which appears to be a bit larger-than-real-life depiction.
Regardless of all this, Job has sunk into a type of pride from which God is about to deliver him by a most unlikely source!
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