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Job 35:1–16 Elihu thinks Job believes that his righteousness entitles him to God’s blessing, but Elihu believes that neither faithfulness nor wickedness influences God (vv. 1–8). Job had observed how the oppressed cry out and the wicked are not punished, but Elihu argues that the oppressed often cry out in pride, and thus God does not respond (vv. 9–16).
Job 35:2 my right before God. Job had claimed that God had wronged him (19:6). In Elihu’s view, this meant Job was claiming that he was right, rather than God (see 32:2).
Job 35:6–8 Elihu repeats an aspect of Eliphaz’s final argument against Job—that God does not profit from Job’s righteousness (see 22:2–3). Neither Eliphaz nor Elihu understand that the motivation for Job’s complaint is his desire to see God glorified on earth in and through the lives of those who are faithful to him.
Job 35:12–13 Elihu says that God does not hear the empty cry of the oppressed, because of the pride of evil men. The context indicates that he is most likely referring to the oppressed themselves as “evil men.”
Job 35:14–16 Elihu argues that, if God does not regard the cries of the proud oppressed (vv. 9–13), how can Job expect an answer (v. 14)? Elihu assumes that Job is an even more obstinate person, who takes his lack of punishment as reason to speak foolishly (vv. 15–16). This is extraordinarily insensitive, considering Job’s actual situation.
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