Job 35:1 marks the start and continuation of another speech or discourse by Elihu to Job, carrying forward his speeches in Job. It continues his argument to Job and begins his further instructive discourse, which extends through Job 36. His speeches as a whole span Job 32 to 37.
Those chapters form the third of the book's four divisions, coming after the prose prologue in chapters 1 and 2 and the debate between Job and his three friends in chapters 4 to 31, and coming before the speeches of the Lord out of the storm-cloud, with the prose epilogue in chapter 42:7-17 closing the book. The book of Job is the oldest book in the Bible and the oldest poetical book that has come down. Elihu is the younger man who enters the argument between Job and his friends after Job's replies to his three friends, believing his wisdom can correct Job.
In this section he offers argument and reproof to Job, following much the same line as the other friends, that Job is not great in himself while God is everything, within the book's larger discussion of the cause and purpose of human suffering. Job makes no answer to Elihu and no comment is given on the discourse before God answers Job Himself, and the discourse does not seem to help Job much. The meaning and beauty of the book of Job are best grasped by reading it as a whole.
Job 35:1 marks the start and continuation of another speech or discourse by Elihu to Job, carrying forward his speeches in Job. It continues his argument to Job and begins his further instructive discourse, which extends through Job 36. His speeches as a whole span Job 32 to 37.
Those chapters form the third of the book's four divisions, coming after the prose prologue in chapters 1 and 2 and the debate between Job and his three friends in chapters 4 to 31, and coming before the speeches of the Lord out of the storm-cloud, with the prose epilogue in chapter 42:7-17 closing the book. The book of Job is the oldest book in the Bible and the oldest poetical book that has come down. Elihu is the younger man who enters the argument between Job and his friends after Job's replies to his three friends, believing his wisdom can correct Job.
In this section he offers argument and reproof to Job, following much the same line as the other friends, that Job is not great in himself while God is everything, within the book's larger discussion of the cause and purpose of human suffering. Job makes no answer to Elihu and no comment is given on the discourse before God answers Job Himself, and the discourse does not seem to help Job much. The meaning and beauty of the book of Job are best grasped by reading it as a whole.