American Standard Version
Job 32:1
1So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Job 32:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
- New International Version (NIV)So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
- English Standard Version (ESV)So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Context of Job 32:1
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. 2Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God. 3Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
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וַֽיִּשְׁבְּת֡וּ שְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת הָאֲנָשִׁ֣ים הָ֭אֵלֶּה מֵעֲנ֣וֹת אֶת־אִיּ֑וֹב כִּ֤י ה֖וּא צַדִּ֣יק בְּעֵינָֽיו׃ פRead the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 32:1
- Job 6:29Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
- Job 10:2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me.
- Job 13:15Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.
- Job 23:7There the upright might reason with him; So should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
- Job 27:4Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
- Job 29:11For when the ear heardme, then it blessed me; And when the eye sawme, it gave witness unto me:
- Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?
- Job 33:9I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:
Commentaries on Job 32:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1These three men ceased to answer Job - They supposed that it was of no use to attempt to reason any longer with a man who justified himself before God. The truth is, they failed to convince Job of any point, because they argued from false principles; and, as we have seen, Job had the continual advantage of them. There were points on which he might have been successfully assailed; but they did not know them. Elihu, better acquainted both with human nature…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1So these three men ceased to answer Job - Each had had three opportunities of replying to him, though in the last series of the controversy Zophar had been silent. Now all were silent; and though they do not appear in the least to have been convinced, or to have changed their opinion, yet they found no arguments with which to sustain their views. It was this, among other things, which induced Elihu to take up the subject. Because he was righteous in his…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Elihu is displeased at the dispute between Job and his friends. (1-5) He reproves them. (6-14) He speaks without partiality. (15-22) Verses 1-5 Job's friends were silenced, but not convinced. Others had been present. Elihu was justly displeased with Job, as more anxious to clear his own character than the justice and goodness of God. Elihu was displeased with Job's friends because they had not been candid to Job. Seldom is a quarrel begun, more seldom is…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1Job's three friends did not succeed in comforting him (see 2:11; 6:14–30; 13:4; 16:2; 19:21; 42:10).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-37Job 32:1-37:24. Speech of Elihu. 1-6. Prose (poetry begins with "I am young"). because, &c.--and because they could not prove to him that he was unrighteous.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 32
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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