God’s Word Translation
Job 32:1
1These three men stopped answering Job because Job thought he was righteous.
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
These three men stopped answering Job because Job thought he was righteous. 2Then Elihu, son of Barachel, a descendant of Buz from the family of Ram, became very angry with Job because Job thought he was more righteous than God. 3Elihu was also very angry with Job’s three friends because they had found no answer. They made it look as if God were wrong.
Read all of Job 32Job 32:1 word by word
וַֽיִּשְׁבְּת֡וּ שְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת הָאֲנָשִׁ֣ים הָ֭אֵלֶּה מֵעֲנ֣וֹת אֶת־אִיּ֑וֹב כִּ֤י ה֖וּא צַדִּ֣יק בְּעֵינָֽיו׃ פRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 32:1
- Job 6:29Please change your mind. Don’t permit any injustice. Change your mind because I am still right about this!
- Job 10:2I will say to God, ‘Don’t condemn me. Let me know why you are quarreling with me.
- Job 13:15If God would kill me, I would have no hope ⌞left⌟. Nevertheless, I will defend my behavior to his face.
- Job 23:7Then decent people could argue with him, and I would escape my judgment forever.
- Job 27:4my lips will not say anything wrong, and my tongue will not mumble anything deceitful.’
- Job 29:11“⌞Any⌟ ears that heard me blessed me. ⌞Any⌟ eyes that saw me spoke well of me,
- Job 31:1“I have made an agreement with my eyes. Then how can I look with lust at a virgin?
- Job 33:9⌞You said,⌟ ‘I’m pure—without any rebellious acts ⌞against God⌟. I’m clean; I have no sin.
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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