For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth [his hands] among us, and multiplieth his words against God.
Ver. 37. For he addeth rebellion unto his sin] Or, he will add, viz. unless he be exercised and subdued by more and longer load of afflictions; there will else be no hoe with him, no ground will hold him. The cross is of singular use to tame that rebel flesh; and is theretbre prayed for by Jeremiah for himself, Jeremiah 10:24, and here by Elihu for Job, who had before advisedly chosen affliction rather than sin, and reckoned it as a mercy to be visited every morning, and tried every moment, Job 7:18 .
He clappeth his hands among us] By way of derision, and as insulting over us. This it may seem Job had done in a disdainful way against all that had been spoken, which maketh Elihu thus fiercely to charge him.
And multiplieth his words against God] By a strange pertinace. He delivereth him therefore unto God to be further afflicted; as St Paul did Hymenaeus and Alexander unto Satan to be inwardly buffeted and bodily tormented, as Acts 13:11; Acts 19:16 ut castigati discerent, that they might learn not to blaspheme, 1 Timothy 1:20 .