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This is where we leave off, and then this youngster, this whippersnapper, this upstart Elihu picks up.
``I am young in years, and you are aged. Therefore I was awed and feared to speak my mind with you,'' (Job 32:6, Alter) he begins, and we are off to the races, or at least some brash exhortations to wisdom.
Jobs friends may have forgiven him:
``I am young in years, and you are aged. Therefore I was awed and feared to speak my mind with you,'' (Job 32:6, Alter) he begins, and we are off to the races, or at least some brash exhortations to wisdom. Jobs friends may have left off on their attempts to convince him of some perhaps-guilt, but Elihu does not: ``And I attended to you, and, look, Job has no refuter, none to answer his talk among you.'' (Job 32:12, Alter) Were it not for the (admittedly quite beautiful) poetic form of Elihu's speeches, he would be beyond tiresome. He goes on for more than a chapter simply talking about how he is going to answer Job before he actually does so. He is going to talk. He is going to get there eventually. He will speak.\footnote{The NRSV has the unique wording ``See, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks.'' (Job 33:2, NRSV) In a Post \emph{Alien} world, this brings to mind some smaller mouth\footnotemark rebuking him.}\footnotetext{Or, to look at it more seriously, some shallower voice. Perhaps that internal Elihu we all have within us, doing its best to convince us that we have, at some point, lacked the wisdom required to have kept us from our current predicament.} Verse after verse of promises.
((On Elihu))