Related Verses: Job 27-32

Leading Question: In the end, God tells Job’s three friends that they need to repent. But he doesn’t say a thing about Elihu. Does that mean that Elihu had it right where the other friends got it wrong?

Some scholars have suggested that Elihu’s voice is somewhat softer in tone than that of the friends, a kind of buffer between the anger of the friends and God’s strong words to Job out of the storm. There is reason to question that position. If I were Job, here are the elements from Elihu’s address that would anger me:

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