Job 34:36

“My desire [is that] Job may be tried unto the end, etc.] This is my opinion, or what “I bring in” f1209 adduce, and lay before you, men of understanding and wisdom, and leave it with you to consider of. Some render it, “O my Father, let Job be tried”, etc. as if it was an apostrophe to God, and a request to him; so Mr. Broughton, who adds, “which art in heaven,” and the same is added by some Jewish interpreters f1210, as there are others f1211 of them which go this way, and also several Christian commentators f1212 ; and of late f1213 it has been urged, from this and other passages, that Elihu was Christ, who here addresses God as his father: but this is his New Testament title; and though…”

“Margin, not so well, "My father," Elihu addressing God. This title does not elsewhere occur in Job. tried--by calamities. answers for wicked men--(See on Job 34:8). Trials of the godly are not removed until they produce the effect designed.”

“My desire is - Margin, “or, “my father, let Job be tried.”” This variation between the text and the margin, arises from the different interpretations affixed to the Hebrew word אבי 'âbiy. The Hebrew word commonly means “father,” and some have supposed that that sense is to be retained here, and then it would be a solemn appeal to God as his Father - expressing the earnest prayer of Elihu that Job might be fully tried. But the difficulties in this interpretation are obvious: (1) Such a mode of appeal to God occurs nowhere else in the book, and it is little in the spirit of the poem. No particular reason can be assigned why that solemn appeal should be made here, rather than in many other…”

“End - Throughly and exactly, 'till the cause be brought to an issue. Wicked men - On their behalf; he hath put arguments into their mouths against God and his providence. Job 34:37”

“34:36 deserve the maximum penalty: Zophar had also said that Job was being punished less than he deserved (11:6).”

“My desire is that Job may be tried: or, My father, let Job be tried, Job 23:16; Psa 17:3, Psa 26:2; Jam 5:11 his answers: Job 34:8, Job 34:9, Job 12:6, Job 21:7, Job 24:1 Job 34:37”