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The poet Alfred Lord Tennyson is reputed to have called the book of Job “the greatest poem of ancient or modern times.” It is, indeed, a poetic masterpiece—one of the most original poems in the history of mankind—and it is also is one of the most dramatic illustrations in the Bible of the interrelationship of God, mankind and Satan. There is much argument as to what is the basic theme of Job....

36:17: Job is receiving the judgment due to the wicked. 36:2f.: Like the other friends Elihu is too busy playing God’s advocate to listen to Job’s suffering. 36:23: With all his self-assurance, Elihu had ended up very much where the friends did and with even less result. He flounders and lurches out into a windy discourse on the divine power displayed in the weather (ch. 37), which seems to add little or nothing to his argument. We do not intend to work
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