Comentário sobre Jó 36:24

Mention His ways, and when you mention [them], you will automatically magnify the praise of the works of His attributes.

From this point on, Elihu’s oration is essentially a summing-up of the whole debate. As regards Job’s speculations about the essence of the soul and its perpetuity, its reward and remuneration, God’s Omniscience and free-will, etc., he asks why he insists on challenging God and investigating metaphysical matters that are clouded in mist. First see if you can understand the workings of Nature, those that you can see with your eyes and perceive with your senses at all times, and then attempt to climb the mountain to investigate the metaphysical. But I will show that you do not even comprehend the visible and mechanical workings of Nature, so how can you presume to discuss the wonders hidden from Nature.

which men have seen Heb. שררו, which men have seen, like (Num. 24:17), “I behold it (אשורנו), but it is not near.”