For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
Job 34:5 belongs to the speech and reproof of Elihu, a younger man who steps in after the argument between Job and his friends closes. Elihu thinks his superior wisdom will correct Job. In this verse he repeats Job's claim to be righteous and Job's complaint that God had taken away his judgment and right and denied him justice.
Job spoke from knowledge and conviction of his own integrity, convinced he had committed no open sins, but without understanding God's dealings with him. Elihu follows about the same line as Job's friends, arguing that Job was not great and that God was everything, and reproves Job for his claim. No answer is made to Elihu.
Job's persistent self-justification arose in response to his friends' false accusations, and he believed his severe troubles had come upon him without cause, but it was his mistake. Though he was upright and did not charge God foolishly, he was wrong to insist on his own judgment of his character and God's dealings. In defending himself he made his own righteousness greater than God's. When God questioned him, Job recognized that God understood his character and what was right better than he did, and repented. God saw the end from the beginning and was working out through Job's trial what would glorify Himself forever after, give comfort and hope to thousands of suffering ones, and prove a blessing to Job.
Job 34:5 belongs to the speech and reproof of Elihu, a younger man who steps in after the argument between Job and his friends closes. Elihu thinks his superior wisdom will correct Job. In this verse he repeats Job's claim to be righteous and Job's complaint that God had taken away his judgment and right and denied him justice.
Job spoke from knowledge and conviction of his own integrity, convinced he had committed no open sins, but without understanding God's dealings with him. Elihu follows about the same line as Job's friends, arguing that Job was not great and that God was everything, and reproves Job for his claim. No answer is made to Elihu.
Job's persistent self-justification arose in response to his friends' false accusations, and he believed his severe troubles had come upon him without cause, but it was his mistake. Though he was upright and did not charge God foolishly, he was wrong to insist on his own judgment of his character and God's dealings. In defending himself he made his own righteousness greater than God's. When God questioned him, Job recognized that God understood his character and what was right better than he did, and repented. God saw the end from the beginning and was working out through Job's trial what would glorify Himself forever after, give comfort and hope to thousands of suffering ones, and prove a blessing to Job.