Job 33:9

JOB—NOTE ON Job 33:9 Elihu summarizes Job’s statements as if Job had argued that he was pure and without transgression. However, it is clear from Job’s regular practice of making burnt offerings that this was not his claim (see Job 1:5). By mischaracterizing Job’s plea, Elihu ends up offering a similar argument to that of the three friends: God is greater than man (Job 33:12) and thus he must have intended to warn or rebuke Job (vv. Job 33:14).