Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
Job accordingly says so (Job 40:3-5; Micah 7:9; Leviticus 26:41). It was to lead him to this that Elihu was sent. Though no hypocrite, Job, like all, had sin, therefore through affliction he was to be brought to humble himself under God. All sorrow is a proof of the common heritage of sin, in which the godly shares; and therefore he ought to regard it as a merciful correction. Umbreit and Maurer lose this by translating, as the Hebrew will bear, 'Has any a right to say to God, I have borne chastisement and yet have not sinned?' (so Job 34:6.)
Borne - namely, the penalty of sin; as in Leviticus 5:1; Leviticus 5:17, "He shall bear his iniquity.
Offend - literally, to deal destructively or corruptly х 'echbol (H2254), from chaabal, to corrupt]. (Nehemiah 1:7.)