Then He is gracious to him - That is, assuming that he hears and regards what the messenger of God communicates. If he rightly understands t…

Then he is gracious to him — i.e., God is gracious; He accepts the mediation of the mediating angel. These words of Elihu's must …

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

His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that…

Then he is gracious to him
To the sick man; either the messenger or the minister that is with him, who pities his ca…

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), …