Job 32:1

And his three friends also ceased any longer to answer Job: 1 For Job was righteous before them. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Then Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, 1 Of the kindred of Ram, of the country of Uz, was angered: 1 And he was very angry with Job, 1 Because he justified himself before the Lord. 1

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Cross References

Job 10:2And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; 1 And wherefore hast thou thus judged me? 1

Job 13:15Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, 1 Verily I will speak, and plead before him. 1

Job 22:5Is not thy wickedness abundant, 1 And thy sins innumerable? 1

Job 27:4My lips shall not speak evil words, 1 Neither shall my soul meditate unrighteous thoughts. 1

Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes, 1 And I will not think upon a virgin. 1

Job 33:9I am blameless, for I have not transgressed. 1

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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