If there is a messenger with him - This part of the speech of Elihu has given rise to scarcely less diversity of opinion, and to scarcely le…

To show to man his uprightness. —Some render, “to show to man what is right for him,” but it seems rather to mean, to declare …

So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty meat.

If there be a messenger with him
Or angel, either with God, as some think; or rather with the sick man; by which messenger is …

Job complained of his diseases and concluded from them that God was angry with him; his friends did so too. But Elihu shows that God often afflicts…

Elihu has already proposed the things he intended to debate with Job. Since Job, before he spoke the words Elihu cited (Job 33:10–11), …