Job 32:1

So had these three men abstained from answering Job; because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Thereupon was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he had declared himself more righteous than God.

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Cross References

Job 10:2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; let me know for what cause thou contendest against me.

Job 13:15Lo, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: only I will argue my own ways before him.

Job 22:5Is not thy evil great? and no end to thy iniquities?

Job 27:4Shall my lips not speak any wrong, nor shall my tongue utter deceit.

Job 31:1A covenant had I made with my eyes: how then should I fix my look on a virgin?

Job 33:9“I am pure without transgression, I am quite clean; 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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