Job 33:13

"“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man."

Key Reflection

In Job 33:13, Elihu asserts that God will respond to Job's lamentations, yet he also points out the injustice in Job's self-righteousness, highlighting that God's sovereignty and power transcend human judgment. This text underscores the humility required when facing divine intervention and acknowledges the limitations of human understanding in the face of the Almighty.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Why dost thou strive against him? -By refusing to submit to him, and by calling in question his wisdom and goodness. For he giveth not account of any of his matters -Margin, as in Hebrew “answereth not.” The idea is, that it is as useless as it is improper to contend with God. He does his own pleasure, and deals with man as he deems best and right. The reason of his doings he does not state, nor has man any power to extort from him a statement of the causes why he afflicts us. This is still true. The reason of his doings he does not often make known to the afflicted, and it is impossible to know now the causes why he has brought on us the calamity with which we are visited.

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