Job 36:10

Openeth. Elihu claims that God makes men willing to learn and listen by permitting afflictions to overtake them. Thus, he says, it has been with Job.

Commandeth. God’s afflictions are commands to go and sin no more. Elihu is here developing his theory of suffering as disciplinary rather than penal. Instead of looking upon Job, as his other friends had — as a sinner upon whom God was taking vengeance — he regards him as a person who is being chastened in love for his faults.