Job 32:1
Job's three friends stopped responding to him because he kept on protesting his innocence.
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In The King James Version
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
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Cross References
Job 10:2I will tell God, “Don't just condemn me—tell me what you have against me.
Job 13:15Even though he kills me, I will hope in him. I am still going to defend my ways before him.
Job 22:5No: it's because you're so wicked! Your sins are never-ending!
Job 27:4my lips will never speak lies, my tongue will never be dishonest.
Job 31:1“I vowed to myself never to look with desire at young women.
Job 33:9You say, ‘I'm clean, I've done nothing wrong; I'm pure, I have not sinned.
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 →