as distinct from what he has learned (as Tur-Sinai). Some, however, have thought this an arrogant boast on Elihu’s part; thus Whybray remarks that Elihu “makes the extraordinarily presumptuous claim that he is fully qualified … to do what his elders had not been able to do: he will teach Job wisdom—that is, he claims to possess a knowledge which all have sought and which, as Job had discovered (chap. 28), is the possession of God alone.” On the contrary, it had been a commonplace that “wisdom