If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
If able to reply, the hearer is summoned to arrange his words in order and to stand up before the speaker. This summons belongs to the speeches of Elihu. Elihu comes into the debate convinced that his wisdom can set Job right, yet he proceeds on much the same line as Job's friends, and no reply is made to him.
Those instructive discourses run through chapters 32 to 36 and are distinct from God's own speaking to His servant in chapters 38 to 41, where God condescends to answer Job's request to speak with Him as a man. They are also reckoned as running through chapters 32 to 37 and as forming the third of the four parts of the book, coming after the prologue in chapters 1 and 2 and the debate between Job and his three friends in chapters 4 to 31, and before the speeches of the Lord out of the storm-cloud, with the epilogue in chapter 42:7-17 closing the book. The surrounding chapters present the demand as the Lord Christ's challenge to Job, establishing His claim as the One who founded and measured the earth, set its foundations, and bounded the seas.
If able to reply, the hearer is summoned to arrange his words in order and to stand up before the speaker. This summons belongs to the speeches of Elihu. Elihu comes into the debate convinced that his wisdom can set Job right, yet he proceeds on much the same line as Job's friends, and no reply is made to him.
Those instructive discourses run through chapters 32 to 36 and are distinct from God's own speaking to His servant in chapters 38 to 41, where God condescends to answer Job's request to speak with Him as a man. They are also reckoned as running through chapters 32 to 37 and as forming the third of the four parts of the book, coming after the prologue in chapters 1 and 2 and the debate between Job and his three friends in chapters 4 to 31, and before the speeches of the Lord out of the storm-cloud, with the epilogue in chapter 42:7-17 closing the book. The surrounding chapters present the demand as the Lord Christ's challenge to Job, establishing His claim as the One who founded and measured the earth, set its foundations, and bounded the seas.