23 God has no need to examine people further, that they should come before him for judgment.
23 For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter
23 For God
23 God doesn't need to gather any more evidence; their sin is an open-and-shut case.
23 For He need not further consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.
23 We don't set the time when we will come before God in judgment.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 34:23
Commentary on Job 34:16-30
(Read Job 34:16-30)
Elihu appeals directly to Job himself. Could he suppose that God was like those earthly princes, who hate right, who are unfit to rule, and prove the scourges of mankind? It is daring presumption to condemn God's proceedings, as Job had done by his discontents. Elihu suggests divers considerations to Job, to produce in him high thoughts of God, and so to persuade him to submit. Job had often wished to plead his cause before God. Elihu asks, To what purpose? All is well that God does, and will be found so. What can make those uneasy, whose souls dwell at ease in God? The smiles of all the world cannot quiet those on whom God frowns.