What is the context?
Elihu recounts Job’s claims of purity and his complaint that God treats him as an enemy under surveillance. He answers that Job is not right in this matter because God is greater than humanity.
The focus is the way Job speaks of God in defending himself, rather than a new list of alleged robberies or abuses. Elihu also challenges the complaint that God does not answer.
The reader should distinguish Elihu’s summary from a complete transcript of every qualification Job has made. The speech now proposes another way to understand how God may address a person.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley distinguishes this criticism from the earlier accusation of a secretly hypocritical life. In his reading, the fault lies in how Job’s self-defense reflects upon God. The BSB frames verse 13 as a complaint about receiving no answers, while Wesley’s older wording stresses that God owes no account of His matters.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.
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