On the followup visit:
"suffer me a little..."
Patient: Haven't I suffered enough, already?
"I have yet to speak on God's behalf..."
pt: So;you admit you were wrong, then? That everything you've said until now was just your opinion?
"I will fetch my knowledge from afar."
pt: What? the UN?
"If they serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures."
I think I may have heard something of the sort recently.
Here's the prosperity gospel and the Protestant ethic nicely summarized.
"We cannot order our speech by reason of darkness."
God: "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?"
Big Hint: God is never a patient. But for His inexplicable patience I give thanks--but,no, not nearly enough.
Elihu states that suffering may be decreed for the righteous as a protection against greater sin, for moral betterment and warning, and to elicit greater trust and dependence on a merciful, compassionate God in the midst of adversity.
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