Verse 17. — Can he who does not love judgment be healed? How do you condemn so greatly him who is just? 51. In all that we say, we must attend to what, to whom, when, and how it is said. — He indeed brought forth a good sentence, but it was not to be brought forth to blessed Job. For in everything that is said, it must be most carefully regarded what is said, to whom it is said, when it is said, how it is said. But Elihu attended to what he said, yet did not attend to whom he said it. Blessed Job indeed loved judgment, because he knew how to weigh his own causes subtly with the Lord. Nor had he condemned him who is just, but, set in grief, he inquired with humility why he had been smitten without sin.
He loves judgment who subtly examines his own ways, and having entered the secret chamber of the heart, weighs what the Lord bestows on him, what he himself owes to the Lord. And how had blessed Job not done this, who offered such frequent sacrifices in the expiation of his sons, even for their thoughts? Because, therefore, Elihu said that he who does not love judgment cannot be healed, accusing blessed Job that he did not love judgment, and that he had condemned him who is just, he immediately adds the justice of that same just one, namely of the Lord, saying: