Albert Barnes Commentary Job 34:10

"Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, And from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity." — Job 34:10 (ASV)

Therefore listen to me - Elihu now proceeds to reply to what he regarded as Job's mistaken views, and to show the impropriety of language that reflected so poorly on God and his government. However, instead of addressing the facts of the case and showing how the actual course of events could be reconciled with justice, he resolves it all into a matter of sovereignty and maintains that it is wrong to doubt the righteousness of the dealings of one as mighty as God. In this, he essentially pursues the same course that Job's friends had taken, and does little more to solve the real difficulties of the case than they had.

The facts to which Job had referred are barely addressed; the perplexing questions remain unsolved, and the sum of all that Elihu says is that God is a sovereign, and that there must be an improper spirit when people presume to pass judgment on his dealings.

You men of understanding - Margin, as in Hebrew, men of "heart." The word "heart" is used here as it was consistently among the Hebrews, the Jewish view of physiology being that the heart was the seat of all mental operations. They never speak of the head as the seat of the intellect, as we do. The meaning here is that Elihu regarded them as wise men, qualified to comprehend and appreciate the truth on the subject under discussion.

Far be it from God - Hebrew חלילה châlı̂ylâh — "profane, unholy." It is an expression of abhorrence, as if the thing proposed were profane or unholy (1 Samuel 20:2; Genesis 18:25; Joshua 24:16). The meaning here is that the very idea that God would do wrong, or could support iniquity, was a profane conception and was not to be tolerated for a moment. This is true enough, and Job himself would undoubtedly have concurred with this general sentiment.