So the 4 of them - Job and his Krew - argue back and forth and slowly Job's point that he was innocent of all wrong doing wins the day and the Krew edges towards thinking that maybe, somehow, even god could be unjust. Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the clan of the Ram, shows up and joins the argument. He rages against Job for thinking that he was right and that god was in the wrong. And he disses Job's Krew for bending their arguments and seeming to admit that god could be guilty of something. Worse, Elihu points out that Job's sin is now Hubris. How dare he box with god? How dare he contend that god could be wrong about anything? Job's insistence on his innocence assumes that Job has a superior moral standard than god himself. "Who the hell do you think you are?" he asks Job. To repent he must renounce "any moral authority or cosmological perspective that is God's alone." Back off, Elihu tells Job. "God does not fit man's measure." In a note in the Jerusalem Bible the editor says that Elihu's argument seems to be this: "God is not the viceregent of the Universe; he does not administer the laws of someone else; they are the creation of his own Omnipotence. Neither self-interest, therefore, nor force, can make him violate justice." And then Elihu asks the great question: "Could an enemy of justice ever govern?" Could it even be possible that god could be evil?
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