Job 33:1-33
In Job 33:1-4, Elihu assured Job that he would sincerely search for true answers from God about Job's terrible suffering. Elihu told Job that he would not summarily condemn him, but he would try to find answers that would comfort Job. In verse 4, Elihu assured Job that he knew that God had given him life and that he would form his answers according to the living image of God within him. According to Genesis 3:20, Ecclesiastes 3:14, and Luke 20:38; God can never lose, or ever allow to be destroyed, His living image in every human. God can dissolve His created systems stained by sin, remove the sin and evil, and recreate His living human systems, but He will never allow any of His living human systems to ever be annulled. Romans 8:18-25; Romans 11:36; Revelation 21:1-5. In Job 33:6-12, Elihu again assured Job that he would try to speak from God's point of view, and he would strive to find the right answers as to why Job had to suffer and without condemning Job.
But in verses 8-12, Elihu accused Job of being wrong when Elihu claimed to have heard Job say that he was clean and innocent of all iniquity, even though Job had never directly said that. But Elihu did hear Job say that he had a Redeemer who could make him right with God and bring him alive into God's presence, and Job's witness caused Elihu to wrongly conclude that Job had claimed that he could make himself righteous enough to be accepted by God. Elihu could not comprehend that Job's Redeemer would cleanse Job and make him right with God. Elihu could not bring himself to believe that a Redeemer even existed.
In Job 33:13-17, Elihu concluded that Job must not even try to gain answers from God. Elihu thought that Job must simply accept the fact that God does what He wants, and Job can do nothing about it. Elihu thought that perhaps God caused a man to suffer simply in order to eliminate pride from his life.
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