The Wisdom of the Young: Meditations on Job 32
I had an "AHA!" moment while reading Job chapter 32 today. Have you ever had something that you have been feeling for a long time and just couldn't quite put your finger on it to explain it? Today, Job 32 nailed it down for me. In the previous 31 chapters, Job is afflicted, his three friends come to comfort him (and do a good job of it until they open their mouths), then Job and his friends proceed to argue back and forth like a bunch of whiny high school kids. His friends insist that he must be unrighteous or else God wouldn't have afflicted him, and Job insists that he hasn't done anything wrong and has every right to complain. They go round and round and round, until finally a refreshing new voice appears and smacks some sense into them. Enter Elihu, a younger contemporary, who begins to speak: "Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he. And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three m...