Job keeps claiming himself as righteous before his three friends. Then Elihu appears. He tells Job that it is only God whom decides whether he s righteous or not, and that what he has said is questioning God. Also, he points out that the friends have done wrong too, for they have condemned Job, yet with no answers. Elihu does his long persuading, until God summons a whirlwind and strikes Job with many questions. Job finds what he has done wrong and prays to God for his sin. Job and his friends make an offering to God, who accepts it happily. Job's skin got back to normal, and soon, all his belongings came back. More kids, more animals, etc.
This was not like any other story. At least all the others were kind of linked with each other. The story continued from where it left off. This was different. This was more of a 'once upon a time' thing. I think Job is just a short story to give us the lesson of how religious beliefs were God-based and not human-based.
This was one long book. It wasn't all that particularly long compared to other books, just that most of it were conversations that sort of kept talking about the same thing over and over again. But whatever.
Elihu is a really good persuader. I learned about persuading methods in school, so this was somewhat interesting. Well, not really. You see, I'm sleepy. But he really used well-combined words to convince both Job and his friends of the concept of right and wrong. This can be seen in
mostly anything he says. Here's an example: "Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?" (Job 35:2)
Although Job sinned, he didn't curse God in the end. Just claimed himself as righteous. Right. Job gets rewarded in the end. Happy ending. Woohoo. But then, I start wondering: What happened to Satan? After chapter two, I never saw him again. What is he up to now, I wonder.
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