Charles Spurgeon Commentary Job 34:4-5

"Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good. For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:" — Job 34:4-5 (ASV)

Yes, Job had said something like that, though not precisely that. He had denied the charges of gross sin that his friends brought against him, and he had, in that sense, declared that he was righteous, and so he was. There may have been in Job a little of the spirit that Elihu here denounces; he may, perhaps, have thought that God had not treated him well by allowing him to fall into so much trouble, considering he was a righteous man. Elihu will not allow this notion to pass unchallenged.

Mistaking Job's meaning, he denounces it, just as I have heard preachers sometimes give a description of Calvinism as it never truly was, and then they have proceeded to burn the straw man that they themselves have made. It is one of the easiest things in the world to misquote or misinterpret an opponent's statement, then denounce it, and think you have refuted him, when in reality, you have only dispelled a fantasy of your own mind.

Elihu proceeds to deal with Job in this way.