Job 32:1

So these three men gave no more answers to Job, because he seemed to himself to be right.

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So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

In Context

2And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;

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Cross References

Job 10:2I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.

Job 13:15Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;

Job 22:5Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.

Job 27:4Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.

Job 31:1I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?

Job 33:9I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:

Matthew Henry on Job 32:1

The stage is clear, for Job and his three friends have sat down, and neither he nor they have any thing more to say; it is therefore very seasonable for a moderator to interpose, and Elihu is the man. In this chapter we have, I. Some account of him, his parentage, his presence at this dispute, and his sentiments concerning it, ver. 1-5 . II. The apology he made for his bold undertaking to speak to a question which had been so largely and learnedly argued by his seniors. He pleads, 1. That, though he had not the… Read the whole commentary →

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