“Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’
We have here, I. The bad words which Elihu charges upon Job, Job 35:2, Job 35:3. To evince the badness of them he appeals to Job himself, and his own sober thoughts, in the reflection: Thinkest thou this to be right? This intimates Elihu's confidence that the reproof he now gave was just, for he could refer the judgment of it even to Job himself.
Commenting on Job 35:1-8
For thou saidst, what advantage will it be unto thee?.... Meaning that his righteousness, his holy life and conversation, were of no avail to him: he received no more benefit by being righteous than if he was wicked, since God destroyed one as well as another; and since his righteousness did not secure him from afflictions and calamities, it was of no advantage to him...
Thinkest thou this to be right, [that] thou saidst, My righteousness [is] more than God's? (a) Job never spoke these words: but because he maintained his innocency, it seemed as though he would say, that God tormented him without just cause.