Job 35:1-3

Elihu Recalls God’s Justice

1 And Elihu went on to say:

2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’ ^[a]

3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’

Job 35:1-3 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 35

Is this chapter Elihu goes on to charge Job with other unbecoming speeches, which he undertakes to refute; as that he had represented his cause more just than God's, and religion and righteousness as things unprofitable to men, only to God; to which Elihu takes upon him to make answer, Job 35:1-8; and that the cries of the oppressed were not heard by the Lord, so as to give occasion to songs of praise and thankfulness, to which he replies, Job 35:9-13; and that Job had expressed diffidence and despair of ever seeing and enjoying the favour of God, which he endeavours to remove, Job 35:14-16.

Footnotes

• [a] Or ‘I am righteous before God.’