Elihu defends the justice of Yahweh after Job claimed that Yahweh was being unjust. This is the second of Elihu's four statements and it is addressed first to Job's friends and then to Job. Elihu uses many of Job's statements against him. His attitude is not too different from Job's friends. The ULB sets the lines of this chapter farther to the right on the page than the rest of the text because it is a poem.