Job 32:1

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

Job’s three friends refused to reply further to him because he kept insisting on his innocence. 2Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the clan of Ram, became angry. He was angry because Job refused to admit that he had sinned and that God was right in punishing him. 3He was also angry with Job’s three friends, for they made God appear to be wrong by their inability to answer Job’s arguments.

Job 32:1 word by word

וַֽיִּשְׁבְּת֡וּ שְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת הָאֲנָשִׁ֣ים הָ֭אֵלֶּה מֵעֲנ֣וֹת אֶת־אִיּ֑וֹב כִּ֤י ה֖וּא צַדִּ֣יק בְּעֵינָֽיו׃ פRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• So these threeשָׁלֹשׁshâlôsh shâlôsh shelôshâh shelôshâh · threeH7969
• menאֱנוֹשׁ'ĕnôsh · humanH582
• ceasedשָׁבַתshâbath · to ceaseH7673
• to answerעָנָה‛ânâh · to answerH6030
• Jobאִיּוֹב'îyôb · JobH347
• righteousצַדִּיקtsaddîyq · righteousH6662
• in his own eyesעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869

Cross-references for Job 32:1

• Job 6:29Stop assuming my guilt, for I have done no wrong.
• Job 10:2I will say to God, ‘Don’t simply condemn me— tell me the charge you are bringing against me.
• Job 13:15God might kill me, but I have no other hope. I am going to argue my case with him.
• Job 23:7Honest people can reason with him, so I would be forever acquitted by my judge.
• Job 27:4my lips will speak no evil, and my tongue will speak no lies.
• Job 29:11“All who heard me praised me. All who saw me spoke well of me.
• Job 31:1“I made a covenant with my eyes not to look with lust at a young woman.
• Job 33:9You said, ‘I am pure; I am without sin; I am innocent; I have no guilt.

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

Topics related to Job 32:1

• Self-Righteousness

In the dictionaries

• Job
• Constrain
• Elihu
• Understanding
• Job, Book of

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