Sunday Sermonette: Yet another blowhard

It seems that four endless yammerers isn ' t enough. Now we get a fifth. Elihu runs his mouth for the next six chapters and says approximately nothing. He spends the first chapter just blathering about how he is about to speak. Then he says that Job is wrong to claim he hasn ' t done anything to deserve his fate, but the other three Bozos are losers because they haven ' t been able to prove that he ' s wrong. But then Elihu spends the next four chapters equally failing to prove anything and just spewing more endless dreck about the greatness of God. This book could easily be one twentieth as long, probably a lot less, and still say everything that ' s in it. But it seems we ' re stuck with it. So here ' s more of the interminable spew.32 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.2 Then Eli ′hu the son of Bar′achel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became angry. He was angry at Job because he justified himself rather than God;3 he was angry also at Job ’s three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.4 Now Eli ′hu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.5 And when Eli ′hu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, he became angry.6 And Eli ′hu the son of Bar′achel the Buzite answered:“I am young in years,    and you are aged;therefore I was timid and afraid    to...
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