Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
This has been so ordered, "lest you should" pride yourselves on having overcome him by your "wisdom" (Jeremiah 9:23, the great aim of the Book of Job); and that you may see, "God alone can thrust him down," that is, confute him, "not man." So Elihu grounds his confutation, not on the maxims of sages, as the friends did, but on his special commission from God (Job 32:8; Job 33:4, Job 33:6).
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