Job 32:1

So these three men stopped answering Job because he was righteous in his own eyes.

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

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2Then was kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram; it was kindled against Job because he justified himself rather than God.

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Cross References

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Job 13:15See, if he kills me, I will have no hope left; 1 nevertheless, I will defend my ways before him. 1

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Job 27:4My lips will not speak wickedness, 1 neither will my tongue speak deceit;

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Job 33:9'I am clean and without transgression; 1 I am innocent, and there is no sin in me. 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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