Job 36:4

"I will speak according to the holiness of my works; So that they do not tell him, as God will say to the sinner. "Why do you announce my righteousness, and why does your mouth repeat my law? You hate true science (3). We must therefore speak here according to his works. Science learned from afar is only partially known, the rest is enigma; but when that which is perfect is come, that which is only partly will disappear (4); and God will not always speak from afar, for we will see him one day as he is (5). "This is the truth, and you will not unjustly hear from him unjust words. All the evils that Job endures, Eliu calls them words of God full of truth and justice; but it seems to him that Job thinks them unjust, since he complains of suffering without having deserved it, as if it were not said of the trials of the just: "This is the time when God will begin his judgment on his own. house (6). "

For truly my words are without falsehood. Even righteous men, when they see that they cannot be understood by their feeble hearers, are frequently wont to praise the things they say. Not because they are eager for their own praise, but to inflame their hearers with an anxious desire of listening to them; in order that, while they are uttered by their voice, they may be embraced, with more ardent affection, by the hearts of their hearers. Whence Paul, when he had spoken to the Corinthians things wonderful and many, says, Our mouth is opened unto you, O ye Corinthians, our heart is enlarged. [2 Cor. 6, 11] But haughty men, while they know not the heart of the good, and imitate only their words, from time to time, are hurried forward in praising what they say, not because the listlessness of their hearers displeases them, but because they eagerly please themselves. They imitate and feign the voice of the righteous, but know not the power of their voice. They see what the righteous put forward, but know not what they seek for. For, when holy teachers set forth the praise of their preaching, they raise, as it were, the hearts of their hearers from grovelling thoughts, by the hand of their voice; in order that, having been suddenly roused, they may run, as if to meet the words which follow, and may hold them the more firmly in the embrace of their understanding, the more they had loved them, by the voice of their praiser, even before they beheld them. But, as I said, haughty men know not these things. For since that, which they seek for, is without, they cannot feel what is desirable within. For it is written of the Church of the Elect, All the glory of her, the daughter of kings, is from within. [Ps. 45, 13] And the wise virgins are said to carry oil in their lamps. [Matt. 25, 4] Whence it is said by the voice of the Saints, Our glory is this, the testimony of our conscience. [2 Cor. 1, 12] But haughty men, because they have no testimony of their conscience before God, seek the testimony of another's voice before men; and, when they slowly obtain it, they burst forth into shameless praise of themselves. For if they find not the applause of men, which they eagerly look for, they themselves speak in praise of their own wisdom. Whence also Eliu adds, saying, And perfect knowledge shall be proved to thee. He doubtless felt that he was about to utter great things,…