You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.
In these verses, I. Elihu particularly charges Job with some indecent expressions that had dropped from him, reflecting upon the justice and goodness of God in his dealings with him. He does not ground the charge upon report, but was himself an ear-witness of what he here reproves him for (Job 33:8): "Thou hast spoken it in my hearing, and in the hearing of all...
Commenting on Job 33:8-13
I am clean without transgression,.... This with what follows is supposed to be gathered from Job 10:6; for this is nowhere said by Job in express words; though I rather think, since Elihu so peremptorily affirms that they were spoken in his hearing, that these words and the following did drop from Job's lips, in the controversy with his friends, though not recorded; for we...
I am clean without transgression, I [am] innocent; neither [is there] iniquity in me. (d) He repeats Job's words, by which he protested his innocency in various places, but especially in the 13th, 16th and 30th chapters.