Job 35:1

Study note

Setting — Elihu speaks to Job, resuming his address after the preceding dialogues have ended.

The words — אֱלִיה֗וּ ('e.li.Hu) names the speaker, and וַ/יֹּאמַֽר\׃ (va/i.yo.Mar) literally means "and he said," marking a formal transition into his next discourse.

The thread — This verse opens Elihu’s extended response (Job 35:1–37:24), which runs parallel to the earlier cycles of debate but shifts toward defending God’s absolute sovereignty and the nature of divine justice.

Why it lands — It requires the reader to brace for a direct theological counterargument that will test the validity of Job’s claims about righteousness and God’s fairness.

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