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And though even this discussion of interpolations may feel like an interpolation itself, here is where it ceases being such: One possible outcome of Job’s travails is that he becomes Qohelet. Can one imagine going through the experiences that Job went through and not coming away with at least a little bit of that nihilism? Your family dies. Your livelihood is stripped away. You sit in the bit of ashes with lesions all over your body, and then God comes down in his whirlwind and fixes it all for you. You look back on all of your piety, you look back on all of your wealth, and suddenly yes, it is all a chasing after the wind. ↩

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    The second of these interpolations is the Elihu’s6 speech — and, indeed, the entire character of Elihu, who is never mentioned outside his own chapters — in chapters 32–37. Alter holds a particularly dim view of Elihu, stating, “At this point, in the original text, the Lord would have spoken out from the whirlwind, but a lapse in judgment by an ancient editor postponed that brilliant consummation for six chapters in which the tedious Elihu is allowed to hold forth.” \parencite[460]{alter} Few seem convinced that the character and his speeches are from the original text. The NOAB, notably bearish on the whole Bible, agrees that this may indeed be the case, though it does so with a sigh and a tone of resignation, adding, “In any case, the Elihu speeches are part of the book we now have”, \parencite[767]{noab} with Greenstein echoing that sigh: “Even if, as most scholars think today, the Elihu chapters were added belatedly, they form part of the biblical book.” \parencite[22]{greenstein} ↩

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    The second of these interpolations is the Elihu’s6 speech — and, indeed, the entire character of Elihu, who is never mentioned outside his own chapters — in chapters 32–37. Alter holds a particularly dim view of Elihu, stating, “At this point, in the original text, the Lord would have spoken out from the whirlwind, but a lapse in judgment by an ancient editor postponed that brilliant consummation for six chapters in which the tedious Elihu is allowed to hold forth.” \parencite[460]{alter} Few seem convinced that the character and his speeches are from the original text. The NOAB, notably bearish on the whole Bible, agrees that this may indeed be the case, though it does so with a sigh and a tone of resignation, adding, “In any case, the Elihu speeches are part of the book we now have”, \parencite[767]{noab} with Greenstein echoing that sigh: “Even if, as most scholars think today, the Elihu chapters were added belatedly, they form part of the biblical book.” \parencite[22]{greenstein}

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    Mitchell flatly and without fanfare simply removes Elihu entirely, the verses listed in a blob of “glosses, interpolations, verses out of place.” \parencite[131]{mitchell} ↩

  • Job and his friends have three rounds of arguments, which shall be covered soon, and then, beginning in chapter 32, Elihu is introduced out of nowhere.7 “So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.”8 (Job 32:1, NRSV) ↩