Job 32:1
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
In Context
Cross References
Job 10:2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me! Show me wherefore thou contendest with me!
Job 13:15Lo! he slayeth me, and I have no hope! Yet will I justify my ways before him.
Job 22:5Hath not thy wickedness been great? Have not thine iniquities been numberless?
Job 27:4Never shall my lips speak falsehood, Nor my tongue utter deceit.
Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then could I gaze upon a maid?
Job 33:9“I am pure, and without transgression; I am 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 →