Job 33:5

If thou canst answer me,.... That is, when he had done speaking, after he had heard him out; if he thought he could make a reply to him, he gave him full liberty so to do, and tacitly suggests that he…

If thou canst answer me - The meaning of this verse is this: “The controversy between you and me, if you choose to reply, shall be conducted in the most equitable manner, and on the most equal terms.…

Several arguments Elihu here uses to persuade Job not only to give him a patient hearing, but to believe that he designed him a good office, and to take it kindly, and be willing to receive the…

Full of this feeling Elihu invites Job to measure himself with this wisdom (Job 33:33). Let the matter be reasoned out as it may be on equal terms, for in Elihu a man like himself Job will have no…