Elihu also proceeded, and said,
Elihu maintains that afflictions are to the godly disciplinary, in order to lead them to attain a higher moral worth, and that the reason for their continuance is not, as the friends asserted, on account of the sufferer's extraordinary guilt, but because the discipline has not yet attained its object-namely, to lead him to humble himself penitently before God, (Isaiah 9:13.) "The people turneth not unto Him that smiteth them; neither do they seek the Lord of hosts" (Jeremiah 5:3). This is Elihu's fourth speech. He thus exceeds the ternary number of the others. Hence, his formula of politeness (Job 36:2). Literally, Wait yet but a little for me. Bear with me a little further. I have yet much to say (Job 32:18-20). There are Chaldeisms in this verse, agreeably to the view that the scene of the book is near the Euphrates and the Chaldees х katar (H3803) and zª`eeyr (H2191), used in the Chaldaic (Aramaic) rather than the ordinary Hebrew sense].