Job 32:1

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
three	שְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת she.Lo.shet	H7969	three · cardinal number, both genders singular construct
men	הָאֲנָשִׁ֣ים ha.'a.na.Shim	H582	a man in general (singly or collectively) · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
ceased	וַֽיִּשְׁבְּת֡וּ vai.yish.be.Tu	H7673	to repose · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
answer	מֵעֲנ֣וֹת me.'a.Not	H6030	properly · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
Job	אִיּ֑וֹב 'i.Yov	H347	Ijob · proper noun, a man's name
righteous	צַדִּ֣יק tza.Dik	H6662	just · adjective, masculine singular absolute
eyes	בְּעֵינָֽיו be.'ei.Nav	H5869	an eye (literally or figuratively) · preposition + noun, common feminine dual construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular

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Cross-references

Job 10:7 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
Job 33:9 I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
Job 10:2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Job 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Job 27:4-6 My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
Job 6:29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Job 23:7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
Job 29:11-17 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 32:1-5

Usually young men are the disputants and old men the moderators; but here, when old men were the disputants, as a rebuke to them for their unbecoming heat, a young man is raised up to be the moderator. Divers of Job's friends were present, that came to visit him and to receive instruction. Now here we have, I. The reason why his three friends were now silent. They ceased to answer him, and let him have his saying, because he was righteous in his own eyes. This was the reason they gave why they said no more, because it was to no purpose to argue with a man that was so opinionative, Job 32:1. Those that are self-conceited are indeed hard to be wrought upon; there is more hope of a fool (a fool…

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Adam Clarke on Job 32:1

These 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 and the nature of the Divine law, and of God's moral government of the world, steps in, and makes the proper discriminations; acquits Job on the ground of their accusations, but condemns him for his too great self-confidence, and his trustin…

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John Gill on Job 32:1

So these three men ceased to answer Job,.... His three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, who came to visit and comfort him under his afflictions; but unawares were led into a controversy with him, occasioned by some rash and impatient expressions of his; which controversy had been carried on between them a considerable time, but now dropped; they grew weary of it, and now rested themselves as men do on a sabbath, as the word signifies; they set themselves down, and made no reply to Job's vindication of himself, not caring to give themselves any further trouble, or labour the point any more and longer, perceiving it was all to no purpose: or "and th…

The Church Fathers

These three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just in his own eyes. In the expression, because he seemed to be just in his own eyes, the author of this sacred history intended to refer to the opinion of Job's friends, and did not himself accuse him of being puffed up with pride.
— Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIII

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Dictionary and topics

Elihu — Whose God is he. (1.) “The son of Barachel, a Buzite” (Job 32:2), one of Job’s friends. When the debate between Job and his friends is brought to a close, Elihu for the first time makes his…
Self-Righteousness · 2:9; — 2:9;

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Job 32:1

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 32:1-5

Adam Clarke on Job 32:1

John Gill on Job 32:1

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Job 32:1

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 32:1-5

Adam Clarke on Job 32:1

John Gill on Job 32:1

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Job 32:1-3

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Job 32:1–end