Comentário sobre Jó 34:28

Job had been misled by the invisibility of God’s justice into supposing that the governance of individuals is not in His hands, as it should be. He was wrong: God does hear and respond to the cries of the oppressed.
Elihu suggests a further reason for God’s sufferance of the wicked, namely, that they are the instruments of his wrath: 'The Assyrian, he is the rod that I wield in my anger and the staff of my rod is in his hand. I send him against a godless nation...to spoil and plunder'. But after His judgments have been carried out: 'When the Lord has finished all that He means to do on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem: I will punish the king of Assyria for this fruit of his pride and for his arrogance and vainglory.' (Isaiah 10:5-12) Consequently, God’s apparent silence in the face of wickedness cannot be used as evidence that He has delegated individual governance to another entity. On the contrary, it can just as well be argued that it is evidence of Providence.