Job 33: Elihu Says God Speaks Through Pain

Elihu addresses Job as a fellow creature and disputes Job’s claim that God never answers. He says God warns people through dreams and through sickness to turn them back from ruin, pictures a messenger who pleads for a dying man, and ends by inviting Job to reply or to listen and learn.

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What second way of God’s dealing with people does Elihu describe in Job 33:19-22?

Sudden wealth that tests whether a person stays humblePainful illness that brings a person close to deathStorms and floods that wash away a person’s fieldsProphets sent to rebuke a person in front of the city