32:18 the spirit within me. Whatever or whoever this “spirit” animating young Elihu may have been, it was not God’s Holy Spirit, for Elihu’s spirit “inspired” him merely to repeat the same old false charges against Job that had been originated by the wicked spirit in Eliphaz (Job 4:15). They were reworded and given a few new wrinkles, but they were basically the same lies.