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<p>Strangely, Elihu, for all his talk on wisdom, seems to lack the wisdom required to understand the first part of his proposition, that the workings of God are so far beyond human understanding that we cannot know them well enough to call Him to account for his actions. He immediately falls back on the comforting assertion that cause must precede effect. Of <em>course</em> Job is experiencing such hardships! If he is experiencing such effects, then there must be a cause, and that cause must be the most rational one: an offense against God.</p>
<p><em>We</em> know that it&rsquo;s much more complex. We have the benefit of the framing device to keep in mind. Elihu speaks of wisdom yet lacks the knowledge. He can claim to have one and yet still not know that he lacks the other.&#160;<a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:younes-wisdom" title="Jump back to footnote 13 in the text">&#8617;</a></p>
<p><em>We</em> know that it&rsquo;s much more complex. We have the benefit of the framing device to keep in mind. Elihu speaks of wisdom yet lacks the knowledge. He can claim to have one and yet still not know that he lacks the other.</p>
<p>Indeed, all of Job&rsquo;s friends seem to be acting outside that knowledge. They seem to be speaking without the wisdom of what is actually happening. &ldquo;[T]he Accuser&rsquo;s dirty work has resulted in an epidemic of accusations,&rdquo; Stephen Mitchell observes in his translation. &ldquo;Once the archetypal figure disappears, he is absorbed into the poem as if by some principle of the conservation of energy.&rdquo; \parencite[xvi]{mitchell} Job&rsquo;s friends accuse and accuse and accuse. After all, surely Job has done something wrong, yes? After all, what need would he have of crying out to God?</p>
<p>What does this say about such a God? That that He is the type to demand an interested faith? &ldquo;[T]heir god is revealed as a Stalinesque tyrant so pure that he &ldquo;mistrusts his angels / and heaven stinks in his nose&rdquo;&rdquo; Mitchell says. \parencite[xiv]{mitchell}&#160;<a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:younes-wisdom" title="Jump back to footnote 13 in the text">&#8617;</a></p>
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