Job 35: God is Good

Job 35:10-11 "But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, who teaches more to us than to the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?"

Elihu's point here is to say, "What about when you had plenty? Why weren't you that concerned about God's justice at that point?" I don't know. It's certainly something to think about. I don't know that that really is true of Job, who still offered sacrifices for his kids. That shows that Job was still concerned with pleasing God even when things were great.

Is God really that unconcerned with how a man behaves? Elihu paints this picture of God being too big to be concerned with what man does. Too big to be emotionally or spiritually affected by whatever man does, good or bad. I don't believe that's true. God's justice and treatment and love might be too big to be affected. But we've already seen God be pleased with people and angry at people.

Elihu seemed to be offended on behalf of God when Job mentioned that he couldn't find God in his searching. It served Job right to have no answer. As though God, in his unimaginable justice could be so petty.