Job 32:22
For I know not how long I shall continue, and whether after a while my Maker may take me away.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
In Context
21I will not accept the person of man, and I will not level God with man.
Cross References
Job 17:5He promiseth a prey to his companions, and the eyes of his children shall fail.
Psalms 12:2Save me, O Lord, for there is now no saint: truths are decayed from among the children of men.
Proverbs 28:23He that rebuketh a man, shall afterward find favour with him, more than he that by a flattering tongue deceiveth him.
Galatians 1:10For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Matthew Henry on Job 32:16-22
15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking. 16 When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;) 17 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will show mine opinion. 18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. 19 Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles. 20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer. 21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me… Read the whole commentary →