Elihu, the young talkative one, continues to blast Job, claiming that neither wickedness nor righteousness will affect God, but instead, they will only affect man. That God will not listen to the pleas of man who cry out because of the arrogance of their wickedness, much less, people like Job who claims not to have done anything wrong and expects God to answer him. In fact, over here Elihu is seen to be misquoting Job by suggesting that he said that his righteousness is greater than Lord’s and that it is no big deal to sin.
Elihu is not a part of the solution, but a very confusing part of the problem.
He then goes on to say that God does indeed punish the wicked, and prosper the righteous. If the wicked persists in sin despite being punished by God, they will perish. But if they do repent and seek and obey God, they will prosper. Once again, he is using the same theory as the others that since God prospers the good, and punishes the evil, Job must be evil since he is being punished.
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