Having been saved from the sickness and death that his sins deserved, this man will testify of God’s goodness and grace.
Elihu does not share the simplistic view of Job’s friends that sickness is punishment.
Rather, he views sickness as a way that God uses to kindly chasten his people. The Bible shows this to be often the case (e.g., Psalm 32:1–11). However, as readers we know that it is not the reason for Job’s own sickness. God has struck Job with a disease, not in order to make him holy, but in order to prove that he is holy.
27 He sings before men and says: ‘I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me.