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His Person: where does Elihu direct his anger?

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  • Job’s self-righteous attitude
  • The friends, and their inability to answer
  • their inability to get Job to drop charges against the almighty God
  • Elihu’s nature is characterized by anger
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His Apology:

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  • Elihu begins his apology by announcing that he knows his place
  • He knows he is young, uninitiated, passionate; he has the makings of a fool
  • Elihu who has not undergone any of Job’s conflictions claims to be able to interpret them by virtue of common spirit
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Defence of God’s justice

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  • calls wise men to judge job
  • Elihu launched an attack on Job’s character
  • he is a corrupt man
  • he kept in company with the wicked
  • he answers like a wicked man
  • How could God, the creator of the universe, ever be wrong
  • When God punishes someone in public, it is generally a warning to others
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God’s detachment

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  • a life of righteousness appears to have no effect on God
  • God is free to follow His personal whim
  • Job’s sin does not affect God personally
  • Job’s righteousness is not an obligation for God to act on