Job 32:1

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just to himself.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2And Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, was angry and was moved to indignation : now he was angry against Job, because he said he was just before God.

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Cross References

Job 10:2I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so.

Job 13:15Although he should bill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.

Job 22:5And not for thy manifold wickedness, and thy infinite iniquities?

Job 27:4My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.

Job 31:1I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.

Job 33:9I am clean, and without sin : I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity 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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