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Part 89 — Elihu Continues To Rebuke Job (Job 35-37)

Job · Questions

1. What caused Elihu to charge Job as thinking he was more righteous than God?

2. Would God be impacted by Job’s righteousness or wicked actions?

3. Who are the oppressed not looking to when they cry out?

4. Does God open His ears to vanity?

5. Did Elihu try to correct Job’s vain talk concerning God not seeing and judging aright?

6. Did Elihu claim to speak on God’s behalf?

7. Did Elihu purpose to set forth the truth or did he purpose to speak falsely?

8. Job has charged that God is with the wicked (Job 9:24; 10:3; 21:7). Did Elihu answer that charge?

9. For what purpose would God allow the affliction of His people?

10. Did Elihu set forth any principles similar to what we have read in passages such as Deuteronomy 30:15-20?

11. What difference does Elihu state about the poor and the hypocrites?

12. Who has prevented God from intervening in the sufferings of Job?

13. Can Job appease the anger of God with some sort of ransom?

14. What is Job counseled not to desire and not to regard?

15. Is God a teacher that should be charged as doing wrong?

16. What should Job remember that others see through him?

17. What argument did Elihu set forth about God’s greatness?

18. Did Elihu fear God?

19. What does Elihu instruct Job to hear attentively?

20. Does God direct snow, rain, freezing cold, etc.?

21. For what purpose does God control “nature”?

22. Does God ever control natural things as a form of correction?

23. Did Elihu try to get Job to notice the power of God by looking at nature?

24. Should one be taught how to speak to God?

25. Can God be “figured out”?

26. Does God respect those who are wise in their own hearts?