Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice. Job 34:12
Elihu is speaking to Job on the fact that Job is seeking God to answer him concerning what sin he committed to have his entire life uprooted and destroyed. Elihu has a right concept of God's character, but ultimately fails to put it all together. Each of Job's friends rightly observe that God will not just act spitefully against any man, but will always act justly. Therefore Job must have sinned to deserve the punishment he received.
It is always dangerous to live our life based on any one concept of God. If you only focus on God's holiness then you miss God's love and mercy, or if you only follow that God is love then it allows you to potentially presume on God's grace because He does not punish for sin. The thought that I pulled from this passage is, these friends had right concepts of God, but missed the boat on the essence of God. It is so important to seek God and apply the knowledge of Him in every aspect of our lives. We will get things wrong, but it is important to continually seek after Him based on the Word of God.
Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to
our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:6-9
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