Elihu presents a second way God can talk to man: through disease and hardship. We do see this a lot in the Old Testament but the point of it all is to direct us toward the source of salvation, God. God blesses us with many things in this world (despite our sin) and He can restore us to a perfection of the paradise to come. In order to receive this, Elihu proposes a mediator between God and man to speak to both and be able to offer up a ransom worth a person's life. The fulfilment of this we find in Jesus Christ who is God and man, and therefore able to relate to both, and offers his life on the cross as a ransom for us. In him, we have the promise of the paradise to come free from evil.