Commentary for Job 33:12

for God exceeds man God does not have to be so exact with man because the Holy One, blessed be He, has more virtues than man.

Implicit in Job’s argument is the idea that God is hostile or at best indifferent to man; that He makes impossible demands of him, punishing him for acts over which he has no choice and denying him guidance or acknowledgment. Elihu rejects this, saying that God repeatedly calls upon man to repent, initially through his conscience by such means as a dream, and if this fails, by means of the warnings implicit in visitations of sickness and pain.