1-6. This is the history of the book.
It is to be specially noted that in its introduction and dose we have Jehovah in the Book of Job. In all the Book itself; including the speech of Elihu, we have Elohim, Shaddai, etc. In the Book itself we have the ways of God as God in the whole world. In the introduction and close—the interpretation of divine government—we are behind the scenes in revealed dealings. This leads to special observation of Elihu's place. There are springs or sources of action in the beginning and close—motived dealings; in the Book, facts on which man reasons, and from which he draws conclusions; we are above in the former, below in the latter. Compare chapter 3: 21, and Psa. 139:1515My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. (Psalm 139:15).