For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
Ver. 5. For Job hath said, I am righteous] So he was with a twofold righteousness: imputed, or the righteousness of justification; and imparted, or the righteousness of sanctification. But Elihu understood him as if he had said, I am sinless. This Job never said; only he cleared himself of foul offences wherewith his friends falsely charged him; and asserted his own integrity, whereof he seemed to be more solicitous than of giving God the glory of his justice; and therein he was to be blamed, as here he is to some purpose.
And God hath taken away my judgment] sc. By handling me like a wicked man, and not showing me why. See Job 27:3, where Job had used these very words; but not in the sense that Elihu urgeth them against him.