Job 34:5
“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:”
What does Job 34:5 mean?
Elihu, a young man who has been listening to Job's complaints, is paraphrasing what Job has said during his suffering. Job has been expressing his frustration that despite living a good life, God has allowed terrible things to happen to him, and his legal rights or justice seem to have been stripped away. This captures the heart of Job's struggle: he feels innocent yet abandoned, as if God has acted unfairly toward him. It's the kind of thing people in deep pain sometimes say, and Elihu is setting up his own response to what he sees as Job's accusation against God's character.