Job 34 And 35

After reading chapter 34:

*Elihu is speaking. He's going to set everyone straight. Job says he's innocent, but he's really in league with the wicked because he claims that there is no profit from trying to please God. It is unthinkable that God would do anything wrong or pervert Justice. He's the head guy, the one who is in charge of everything. He brought the earth into existence, he can take it out. God is the Just and Mighty One. He shows no partiality to the rich and powerful over the poor. He will snuff out any one of them in an instant. He can see everything everyone is doing(Mass surveillance). No one can hide from him. He's quite capable of punishing the wicked and the oppressors. On the other hand, if he wants to stay silent or hide his face, who can condemn him? It's his prerogative as ruler over man and nation. God's government is totalitarian.

*Elihu goes on: Suppose someone says, "Okay, I must have messed up. Tell me what I did wrong and I won't do it again." Is that real repentance?  Should Job get a prize for saying that? A few people who are pretty smart told Elihu that Job's speech was ignorant and shallow. Job needs to be tested even more for talking like a wicked man, and for the sin of rebellion against God by being scornful to his friends, who were only trying to get him to see the truth.

After reading chapter 35:

*Elihu continues. He accuses Job of saying he will be cleared by God and at the same time asking what he will gain by not sinning. Elihu asks Job to gaze way up into the sky, presumably where God is. How does Job's righteousness or sinfulness affect God? What does God get out of it? According to Elihu, the only ones it has a direct effect on are humans. No one says,"Where is God, my maker?" (Except Job). God doesn't answer when men cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked. He doesn't pay attention to their empty pleas. Of course he's not going to listen to Job when he says he cannot see God, and that he's waiting for an answer to his case, and that God doesn't punish the wicked, but ignores them. That's just foolish talk.