[Elihu]
If you sin, that does no harm to God.
If you do wrong many times, does that affect him?
Do you help God by being so righteous?
There is nothing God needs from you.
Others suffer from your sins,
and the good you do helps them.
So true.
…kings…
God shows them their sins and their pride.
He makes them listen to his warning
to turn away from evil.
If they obey God and serve him,
they live out their lives in peace and prosperity.
King Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 4).
…God teaches people through suffering
and uses distress to open their eyes.
Indeed (Lamentations 3:28-33).
The storm makes my heart beat wildly. …And now the light in the sky is dazzling,
too bright for us to look at it;
and the sky has been swept clean by the wind.
Elihu is watching the approaching storm (Job 38:1)!
God’s power is so great that we cannot come near him;
he is righteous and just in his dealings with us.
A very Islamic perspective.