What is the context?
Elihu asks for more time because he has further words on God’s behalf. He says he will ascribe justice to his Maker and claims knowledge without falsehood.
The statement about one perfect in knowledge being present gives the opening exceptional confidence. It raises the question of the authority he claims for what follows.
The reader must distinguish a speaker’s presentation of his own knowledge from the Lord’s direct speech in the next part of the book. Strong assurances do not remove the need to assess an argument.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley takes the one perfect in knowledge to be God, before whom Job’s actions are weighed. In the BSB sequence, the phrase also stands close to Elihu’s claims about his own words. The assurance should be explained with that setting visible, without inventing a formal divine appointment not narrated here.
What is our position?
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