Job 35-37 God is Sovereign & His Ways are unknowable to man.
Elihu continues on his way offering a myriad of reasons men find themselves humbled but still wondering what is really happening because although God is sovereign, he is still unknowable in human terms. Elihu asks a thousand questions about life and the destiny of men and animals. He isn’t satisfied and Job isn’t either, or so he presumes. So now we have four men who think they have the answers to suffering but in the end they are as confused as they were at the beginning! One thing stands out: God knows what He is doing and the purposes yet man is in the dark and so men make. assumptions as to the real reason. “Elihu claimed that God is under no obligation to react to people’s actions be they good or bad. He is free to respond or not respond as He chooses. God is above the human sphere of life and only reacts to people when He chooses to do so. This is a thought Eliphaz had expressed earlier.”
And so here we are in this and although we believe God and His ways because we have the completed Word, but we want to stand up and shout: this is a trial that God has allowed to prove His servant Job is honorable to the core. But, as Elihu says, God doesn’t have to tell us at all what He is doing because He is God and that is all that men need to remember.