Read Job 36—37
How great is God—beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out. Job 36:26

God wants to teach us through our sufferings (36:22), and one evidence that we are learning our lessons is that we praise and thank Him, even for trials. “Glorify him for his mighty works for which he is so famous” (v. 24 TLB). “Praise changes things” just as much as “prayer changes things.” With all his verbosity and lack of humility, Elihu did say some good things that Job needed to hear. Elihu’s use of rhetorical questions in 37:14– 18 prepared Job for the series of questions Jehovah would ask him in Job 38
—41.

Unlike the three friends, Elihu assessed Job’s problem accurately: Job’s actions may have been right—he was not the sinner his three friends
described him to be—but his attitudes were wrong. He was not the “saint” Job saw himself to be. Job was slowly moving toward a defiant, self righteous attitude that was not at all healthy. It was this “know-it-all”
attitude that God exposed and destroyed when He appeared to Job and questioned him. So, even though God said nothing about Elihu, the man did have a helpful ministry to Job. Unfortunately, Job wouldn’t accept it.

Something to Ponder
What are some good actions you have performed lately in which your attitudes weren’t quite as good as they should have been?