We are, however, kept in suspense for six chapters as a new voice entered – and it was not a timid voice. We will explore the nature of Elihu’s role at length but suffice it to say here that he certainly made himself heard, expressing his anger at Job as well as the friends for not doing justice to the difficult issues and adjudicating some of the fine points of the arguments. He also set the stage for the appearance and voice of the LORD.
Then the LORD Answered Job (chs 38-41)
Finally – the LORD responded. Perhaps it would be better to say the LORD appeared, majestic and overpowering with His questions about Job’s own lack of power and knowledge. Job’s plight was not at all in the script of God’s remarkable discourses about his created order. …show more content…
Fyall,
Now My Eyes Have Seen You: Images of Creation and Evil in the Book of Job NSBT 12 (Downers Grove:
InterVarsity Press, 2002), 19-20, 71; Yohan Pyeon, You Have Not Spoken What Is Right About Me:
Intertextuality and the Book of Job (SLB 45; New York: Peter Lang, 2003), 54-56; Steven Chase, Job.
Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2013), 5; and C.L.
Seow, Job 1-21: Interpretation and Commentary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013), 26-38. And these represent only a small sampling.] Most notable is the apparent incongruity between the narrative framework and the poetry, some of the finest but most difficult in the Hebrew Bible. Job’s character as described by God (Job 1:8 and 2:3) seems inconsistent with his turbulent speeches. How could the pious and accepting Job of the prose narrative be the same anguished and angry Job who unleashed torrents of accusations against God? In addition, apart from Job 12:9, the covenant name, Yahweh, does not appear in the cycle of dialogues. Instead, Elohim is almost exclusively the proper Name for God throughout the poetry. Further, there is an apparent contradiction between God’s speeches in
Then the LORD Answered Job (chs 38-41)
Finally – the LORD responded. Perhaps it would be better to say the LORD appeared, majestic and overpowering with His questions about Job’s own lack of power and knowledge. Job’s plight was not at all in the script of God’s remarkable discourses about his created order. …show more content…
Fyall,
Now My Eyes Have Seen You: Images of Creation and Evil in the Book of Job NSBT 12 (Downers Grove:
InterVarsity Press, 2002), 19-20, 71; Yohan Pyeon, You Have Not Spoken What Is Right About Me:
Intertextuality and the Book of Job (SLB 45; New York: Peter Lang, 2003), 54-56; Steven Chase, Job.
Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2013), 5; and C.L.
Seow, Job 1-21: Interpretation and Commentary (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013), 26-38. And these represent only a small sampling.] Most notable is the apparent incongruity between the narrative framework and the poetry, some of the finest but most difficult in the Hebrew Bible. Job’s character as described by God (Job 1:8 and 2:3) seems inconsistent with his turbulent speeches. How could the pious and accepting Job of the prose narrative be the same anguished and angry Job who unleashed torrents of accusations against God? In addition, apart from Job 12:9, the covenant name, Yahweh, does not appear in the cycle of dialogues. Instead, Elohim is almost exclusively the proper Name for God throughout the poetry. Further, there is an apparent contradiction between God’s speeches in