Job 32:1

So these shloshet ha'anashim ceased to answer Iyov, because he was tzaddik in his eyes.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu ben Barakhel the Buzi, of the mishpochah Ram; against Iyov was his wrath kindled, because Iyov justified his nefesh rather than Elohim.

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Cross References

Job 10:2I will say unto Eloah, Do not condemn me; 1 show me what charge Thou dost contend with me. 1

Job 13:15Though He slay me, yet will I wait for and trust in Him; 1 but I will maintain my derech before Him. + 13:15 Isa 53:8,10 1

Job 22:5Is not thy rah great? 1 And thine avonot infinite? 1

Job 27:4My lips shall not speak falsehood, 1 nor my leshon utter deceit. 1

Job 31:1I made a brit (covenant) with mine eyes; 1 how then look I upon a betulah? 1

Job 33:9I am pure without peysha; 1 I am clean; neither is there avon in me. + 33:9 Yn 8:46 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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