פירוש על איוב 34:33

From you should He pay it, for you despised etc. so did Elihu say to Job, “Should the Holy One, blessed be He, have taken counsel from you about repaying you?”

for you despised saying (above 7: 16), “I despised [my life]; I will not live forever”; (above 6:9) “enlarge His hand and finish me off.” Do you think that He would collect from you according to your thoughts and your desire, and you would choose the payment—not I? Elihu spoke instead of the Holy One, blessed be He, with a question.

God’s forbearance is His privilege and His alone and Job has no grounds for challenging it. Now, having rebuffed all the arguments against Providence that Job had drawn from the prosperity of the wicked, Elihu gathers strength for the next stage: he will not give up until he has convinced Job beyond all doubt.