God’s Word Translation
Job 32:14
14Job did not choose his words to refute me, so I won’t answer him with your speeches.
Job 32:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.
- New International Version (NIV)But Job has not marshaled his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your speeches.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Now he has not directed his words against me; So I will not answer him with your words.
Context of Job 32:14
12I’ve paid close attention to you, but none of you refuted Job. None of you has an answer to what he says. 13So don’t say, ‘We’ve found wisdom. Let God, not humans, defeat him.’ Job did not choose his words to refute me, so I won’t answer him with your speeches. 15“Job’s friends have been overwhelmed and don’t have any more answers. They don’t have another word to say. 16Should I wait because they don’t speak, because they stand there and don’t have any more answers?
Read all of Job 32Job 32:14 word by word
וְלֹא־עָרַ֣ךְ אֵלַ֣י מִלִּ֑ין וּ֝בְאִמְרֵיכֶ֗ם לֹ֣א אֲשִׁיבֶֽנּוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Commentaries on Job 32:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14He hath not directed - I am no party in this controversy; I have no party feeling in it: he has not spoken a word against me, therefore I have no cause of irritation. I shall speak for truth; not for conquest or revenge. Neither will I answer him with your speeches; your passions have been inflamed by contradiction, and you have spoken foolishly with your lips.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14Now, he hath not directed his words against me - Margin, “ordered.” The meaning of this expression is, “I can approach this subject in a wholly dispassionate and unprejudiced manner. I have had none of the provocations which you have felt; his harsh and severe remarks have not fallen on me as they have on you, and I can come to the subject with the utmost coolness.” The object is to show that he was not irritated, and that he would be under no temptation…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-14Verses 6-14 Elihu professes to speak by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and corrects both parties. He allowed that those who had the longest experience should speak first. But God gives wisdom as he pleases; this encouraged him to state his opinion. By attention to the word of God, and dependence upon the Holy Spirit, young men may become wiser than the aged; but this wisdom will render them swift to hear, slow to speak, and disposed to give others a…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-22After three rounds of speeches between Job and his friends, a new voice speaks. Elihu, a young man, has listened to everything the others said.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. I am altogether unprejudiced. For it is not I, whom he addressed. "Your speeches" have been influenced by irritation.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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