Nathan's Hot Gas

I had read somewhere (I wish I knew where) that the Book of Job is more than likely a play-write, an of the earlyest kind.  This seems to complicate the issue for me a bit.  We see that Elihu is younger, and is respectful of his elders, but even in that he disrespects them by saying that all because one is older does not necessarily mean that a person is wiser, or even understands justice as well.  This justice not being human justice but God’s justice.  This bothers me because if Job is a play-write, then it is not merely a character expressing what he sees before him, but it more than likely a generation viewing the misguidance of a prier generation.  The author’s generation would be telling the generation before that they did not really understand God’s justice and our relationship with God and His justice.

~ by nathansmith on September 22, 2009.