Job 37:23

According to the original the members of the verse stand thus;

The Almighty! we cannot find him out; who is great in power,

And in justice and fulness of righteousness: he will not afflict.

The connexion shews that afflicthas the sense of afflict unjustly, or oppress. Taken thus the verse has a certain halting movement. Hence others take the word "afflict" in the sense of wrestor do violence to, rendering the second clause, and justice and fulness of righteousness he will not pervert(Ew.).

Elihu returns here at the end of his discourse to the thought of God with which he started, ch. Job 36:5, "Behold God is mighty, and despiseth not any." This is the thought of God that fills all his discourses; God's power is ever conjoined with righteousness, and He unjustly afflicts or oppresses none.