Job 34:29

Here he, God, is emphatic. Elihu while upholding the rectitude Of God conjoins with it His sovereignty. To give quietnessor rest seems to mean to give peace and security from oppression, when the oppressed cry unto Him (Judges 5:31; Isaiah 14:7). The antithesis to this is He hides His face, words which always mean, He withdraws His favour or help in anger, ch. Job 13:24; and to behold Himhas of course a sense the opposite of this, viz. to obtain His favour, to make Him gracious. God acts in both ways in His sovereign rule, and when He acts in the one way who shall condemn Him, and in the other who shall compel Him to alter His aspect? And thus He acts on the widest stage and in the most particular instance, with nations and men alike.