October 26, 2012 – Job 32

This entire chapter is the introduction to the “youngin”.  It appears that of the three people that came to Job, one was on a “bring your child to work” day.  Here we have his son that listened to this back and forth and was waiting for someone to stump Job, and it never came.  Now, the spirit wells up inside of him and brings him to speak.  This has many lessons in it even before we hear a word out of him.  First, respect your elders.  He waits to listen and does not interrupt those that are older than him.  Second, respect of elders does not mean you think they are always right.  There is a tendency to mistake respect for obedience or acceptance.  That isn’t always the case.  There maybe should have been some of that lesson shared to our presidential candidates. Neither shows respect to the other one, one in my opinion less than the other.  Regardless of the opinion they hold for each other or whether you think one is right or wrong, they both deserve the respect of the other and both deserve the respect of others.  If this election has shown anything, it is that decorum is dead.