Job 32:1

So these three men ceased to respond to Job, because, he, was righteous in their eyes.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 anger of Elihu, son of Barachel the Buzite of the family of Ram,—against Job, was kindled his anger, because he justified his own soul rather than God;

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Cross References

Job 10:2I say unto GOD, Do not hold me guilty, Let me know, on what account thou contendest with me!

Job 13:15Lo! he may slay me, [yet], for him, will I wait,—Nevertheless, my ways—unto his face, will I show to be right:

Job 22:5Is not, thy wickedness, great? and, without end, [are not] thine iniquities?

Job 27:4Verily my lips shall not speak perversity, nor shall, my tongue, utter deceit.

Job 31:1A covenant, I solemnised for mine eyes,—How then could I gaze upon a virgin?

Job 33:9Pure am, I, without transgression,—Clean am, I, and have no iniquity;

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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