Wisdom Class 5: Job 32-37

The required reading for Sunday, May 16 is Job chapters 32-37

Bible Reading Assignment
For Sunday, we'll be reviewing the response of Elihu to Job and his other three friends:
3) Elihu speaks (32:1-37:24)
    a) He is angry with Job for justifying himself and blaming God for his calamity.
    b) He is angry with the three friends because, though they could not refute Job’s arguments they condemned him.

Elihu was present through the three rounds of speeches concluding in chapter 32, but he waited to speak until his own wrath was aroused. Being younger, he waited to speak until those who were supposedly wiser than him had finished speaking. As you read about Elihu, consider how this young man has such great wisdom by comparison the Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar.

Questions to prepare you for class
1. Why is the wrath of Elihu aroused? 32:2-3
2. Why did Elihu wait so long to speak to Job? 32:4-5
3. Why does Elihu ask Job to give his defense to him? 33
4. What does Elihu accuse Job of doing? Did he do it? 33:13
5. What could God do if he set his heart on it? 34:14-15
6. Does God see everything? Is there any dark place the wicked can hide? 34:21-22
7. People cry out to God in affliction, when do they not? (but should) 35:9-11
8. Even though we don’t see God, we must do what? 35:14
9. God is mighty, what does he do to the wicked and obedient? 36:5-12
10. God’s hand brings all forms of weather, even the animals know this and take cover, what are the reasons he brings weather? 36:26-37:13

Note:  Give Us A King, The United Kingdom, by Bob and Sandra Waldron and The Holy Bible, new King James Version, Reference Edition, Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.were used in preparing the comments in this post.