Elihu asks 'Can you, with him, spread out the skies, strong as a molten mirror?' suggesting that humans lack the power to create the heavens and therefore should not presume to judge divine action. This verse uses divine creative power as grounds for humility before God. The image of the sky as strong as a molten mirror suggests both beauty and invulnerability. Elihu uses human inability to perform such cosmic feats as grounds for accepting human inability to judge divine action. Yet the verse also raises questions: does inability to create something preclude the right to evaluate the justice of how that creation is governed? One need not be able to create the universe in order to recognize injustice in its governance.

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