Job 37:1-24
In this chapter, Elihu greatly praised God's "terrible majesty" and His Almighty power in His creations, but as he implied to Job in verse seven, men can only know God by His creative works and never know Him in any personal way.
Elihu contended in verse 13-14 that God uses His correction and His mercy only for the purpose of keeping His creations in order. God never uses His correction and His mercy to show love for any person.
In verse 19, Elihu informed Job that no man can pray directly to God because darkness comes between man and God. The Bible (KJB) often uses the word "darkness" to indicate the evil that lies hidden in the hearts of men. In verse 20, Elihu admonished Job that if he even tried to pray to God he would be "swallowed up," meaning that his sin and evil would prevent God from hearing him.
In verse 23, Elihu summed up his general message to Job. Almighty God possesses excellent creative power, but no one can "find Him out," meaning no one can know much more than that about God. God has the absolute right to do whatever He desires to Job or any other man. God possesses excellent judgment simply because He is Almighty. God can afflict Job with terrible suffering or withhold His affliction as He wills and be just in doing so, and Job will just have to accept that fact.
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