The One Year Bible - Day 242

Elihu points out the fault in Job's line of thinking. Job has assumed that since he is righteous, God must be unjustly punishing him although he realises he can't do anything about that. Elihu shows him that God by definition is righteous, all other theology must be built up from this. We know reading the book that Satan was tempting Job to sin so it wasn't related to Job's sin but in the absence of that possibility, Job has compromised his theology and made God the weak link. In the same way that "neither this man sinned nor his parents, but this happened for the glory of God". We don't need to understand why things happen (although it is sometimes nice) so we simply need to ask sometimes, "God, if this is my fault then point it out so I can sort it otherwise Your will be done!".