I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Ver. 3. I will fetch my knowledge from afar] Even from heaven, as one taught of God; I will discourse of ancient things (for τα καινα κενα), and fetch my reasons from the wonderful and sublime works of God, De arduis atque admirandis Dei operibus, those real demonstrations of his Deity. Est autem plane hic Elihu mirus et egregius, saith Mercer. And he is not a little wronged by that French Paraphrast, who saith of him, That he knew well how to begin a discourse, but knew not how to end it; and that seeing well that his tediousness might make him troublesome, he awakened his languishing auditors by this artificial preface.
And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker] This is both the main proposition of the ensuing oration and the main end of man's creation, viz. to glorify his Maker, Rom 11:36 Revelation 4:11 .