Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 34

Furthermore Elihu. —Elihu here hardly lives up to the profession with which he starts, for he immediately begins to accuse Job in no measured language. Elihu makes, indeed, a great profession of wisdom, and expressly addresses himself to the wise (Job 34:2), and insists on the necessity of discernment (Job 34:3–4). It should be noted that Job himself had expressed much the same sentiment in Job 12:11.

For Job has said. —See Job 13:18-19; Job 27:2, especially.

Should I lie against my right? —Compare to Job 27:2-6.

My wound is incurable. —Literally, my arrow, i.e., the arrow which has wounded me. (Job 17:1, and so on).

Without transgression. —That is to say, on my part. (See Job 16:17.) Some understand the former clause, “Notwithstanding my right, I am accounted a liar,” but the Authorised Version is more probably right.

Who drinks up scorning? —The same word had been applied to Job by Zophar (Job 11:3), And when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed? and the same reproach by Eliphaz (Job 15:16).

And walketh with wicked men. —This was the charge that was brought against Job by Eliphaz (Job 15:4–5; Job 22:15).