Today, I am reading and commenting on  Job 29-33.

I have said this in previous years when I read this passage, but it bears repeating: at the end of the book when God speaks, He does not call out Elihu as he does the other three of Job’s friends.  This suggests to me that, unlike the other three, Elihu speaks a message to which we should listen.  First, Elihu makes the point that we should not dismiss what someone has to say just because of their youth.  He even concedes that the young should stay silent and listen to what their elders have to say before they speak up.  Actually, that is the first point which Elihu makes and precedes the first one of which I made note.  We can learn a lot from what Elihu says, but the most important point he makes is that God is not silent.  We may fail to perceive what God has to say to us, but that merely indicates our lack of perceptivity, not God’s silence.  God may speak to us in dreams, or in the words of those around us, or by sending suffering our way.  All of these are ways in which God may send us a message designed to turn us from our sins.  It is important that we listen when God speaks to us.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.