(4:12) (0:00) (2:03) ELIHU REBUKES JOB'S THREE FRIENDS (ESV/BBE)
(0:31) So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes (0:51) And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was burning with wrath against Job because he seemed to himself more right than God; also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer. They declared Job to be in the wrong, but had not made his sin clear.
(1:27) Elihu waited to speak because they were older, but now burned with anger: (1:52) “You are very old, so I was in fear and said to myself it was right for the old to say what is in their minds, to give out wisdom. But truly it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand (2:35) It is not the old who are wise…
Listen to me and I will put forward my knowledge (2:49)…while you were searching out what to say, I was taking note; and truly not one of you was able to make clear Job's error, or to give an answer to his words. Take care that you do not say: God may overcome him, but not man. He has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your speeches.
(3:41) They are dismayed; they answer no more; they have not a word to say. (4:23) Fear has overcome them… (3:57) I am full of words (4:43) my belly is like new wineskins ready to burst. I must speak…(5:54) I will not show partiality to any man or use flattery toward any person…I do not know how to flatter, else my Maker would soon take me away.
Job 33 (5:12) ELIHU REBUKES JOB
(5:53) O Job, give ear to my words as they declare the uprightness of my heart, which is overflowing with knowledge. The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Ruler of all gives me life.
(5:37) I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay…(6:23) Surely you have spoken in my ears (6:40) You say, “I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me. See, he is looking for something (finds occasions) against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters. He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.”
(6:57) (7:28) you are wrong, for God is greater than man. He gives his word in one way, even in two, and man is not conscious of it: In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds, then he makes his secrets clear to men, so that they are full of fear at what they see…in order that man may be turned from his evil works, and that pride may be taken away from him; to keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.
(8:00) (8:54) Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones, so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite the choicest food (his soul is turned away from delicate meat); his flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out. His soul draws near the pit, and his life to the angels of death.
(8:19) If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him, and he is merciful to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have given the price for his life/found a ransom; (9:27) let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor'; then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, restores to man his righteousness (8:38) He sings and says: 'I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me. He has redeemed my soul from the (underworld) pit, my life shall look upon the light in full measure.
(9:51) God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man, to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be lighted with the light of life (10:15) Pay attention, O Job, be silent and I will speak. If you have anything to say, give me an answer; for it is my desire that you may be judged free from sin. If not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.