V.1-3 God was the center of Elihu’s thoughts. His eye was on God. Job had his eye on himself — the cause of all Job’s trouble.
V.3 It is grand when we follow this verse in our life.
V.4 the closer we walk with God, the wiser we are. Elihu had perfect confidence that he was speaking God’s truth.
V.5-17 Remember that you are reading the Old Testament. The Lord Jesus Christ had not yet come to earth. God was still testing people to see if they would obey. Never mix Christianity with the religion of the Jews. But we believers can learn much from the Old Testament. Christians quickly and easily get out of communion with the Lord, get impatient, irritable, fault-finding, judging everyone but themselves and all this goes on until God takes us in hand, by methods He knows to be best, and brings us back to Him. We never can be lost, but we sure can get unhappy. This is what we are learning from Job, even although Job knew nothing about salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ.
V.7-12 Here is a serious warning. A person might be so unwilling to submit to God that it would result in his death. In 1 Corinthians 11: 29-31, there is the same statement, and don’t forget that this latter one was in the day of grace, the Christian era. Our sins would be forgiven but what sorrow it would bring!
V.18 We cannot be careless with God.
V.26 God never really was known by man until the Lord Jesus came to earth.
V.26-33 Elihu keeps reminding them of the greatness of God, so that they would have true brokenness of heart, and humbleness of mind. Job had not yet come to this.