Coffee With Job. Episode 99
Channel: Jason Blaiklock
Date: 2022-08-04

Bursting with Words.  Job 32:6-22

v.6-22 – He is also a bit arrogant.  He says he is young but it is also possible to be wise.  He talks about the feebleness of the friend's speeches.   He does not know how to flatter so Job had better be prepared for some straight talking.  He also goes on a bit –  Longwinded - Endless Elihu – takes 24 verses to say ‘I’m going to speak.  

There are many things wrong with this.  This angry young man lacks pastoral warmth.  He is theoretical.   We must not take great slabs of truth and use them to hammer people. “In such distress, tears of fellowship with suffering are far more profitable than lectures in harsh theology”.  There is a sense in which he knows the doctrines of grace in his mind but does not apply them in his heart.  

He is egocentric – 32v.10 and v.17.  19 times he uses the words I or Me. Self-important.  He is patronizing and uses the language of modesty to disguise arrogance.   He does not offer to pray with Job.  And he is wrong because God does appear to Job.   He does not know everything – he does not know about the heavenly court and Satan.  He does not know the real reasons behind Jobs's suffering.