If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.
In these verses, I. Elihu instructs Job what he should say under his affliction, Job 34:31, Job 34:32. Having reproved him for his peevish passionate words, he here puts better words into his mouth. When we reprove for what is amiss we must direct to what is good, that our reproofs may be the reproofs of instruction, Pro 6:23.
Commenting on Job 34:31-37
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 that] Job may be tried unto the end because of [his] answers for wicked men. (d) That he may speak as much as he can, that we may answer him and all the wicked that will use such arguments.