How dare you talk to God like that?

Ben Green | Job 32:1-5 | Job 33:8-18 

Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God. He was also angry with the three friends, because they had found no way to refute Job, and yet had condemned him... When he saw that the three men had nothing more to say, his anger was aroused.

‘But I tell you, in this you are not right,
  for God is greater than any mortal.
Why do you complain to him
  that he responds to no one’s words?
For God does speak - now one way, now another -
  though no one perceives it.’

Into the debate, which has gone round in circles for so long, steps an angry young man, Elihu. What good can he possibly do? Yet, as Ben explains, he sees beyond everyone else - the older friends with their simplistic worldview, and Job who has come to believe that God is against him. Ben urges us to listen to God and trust him, in good times and bad.

The recording begins with the reading from John Davies. The sermon is based on the whole of chapters 32 to 37.