Job 35:1
Then commenced Elihu, and said,
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Elihu spake moreover, and said,
In Context
2Dost thou deem this to be just, that thou hast said, “My righteousness is more than God's?”
Cross References
Job 32:6And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite commenced, and said, Young am I in days, and ye are very old: therefore I hesitated and feared to show you what I know.
Matthew Henry on Job 35:1
Job being still silent, Elihu follows his blow, and here, a third time, undertakes to show him that he had spoken amiss, and ought to recant. Three improper sayings he here charges him with, and returns answer to them distinctly:—I. He had represented religion as an indifferent unprofitable thing, which God enjoins for his own sake, not for ours; Elihu evinces the contrary, ver. 1-8 . II. He had complained of God as deaf to the cries of the oppressed, against which imputation Elihu here justifies God, ver. 9-13 .… Read the whole commentary →