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Job 32

Job 32:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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So these three
shalowsh (Hebrew #7969)
masculine shlowshah {shel-o-shaw'}; or shloshah {shel-o-shaw'}; a primitive number; three; occasionally (ordinal) third, or (multipl.) thrice
KJV usage: + fork, + often(-times), third, thir(-teen, -teenth), three, + thrice. Compare 7991.
Pronounce: shaw-loshe'
Origin: or shalosh {shaw-loshe'}
men
'enowsh (Hebrew #582)
properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified 120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
KJV usage: another, X (blood-)thirsty, certain, chap(-man); divers, fellow, X in the flower of their age, husband, (certain, mortal) man, people, person, servant, some ( X of them), + stranger, those, + their trade. It is often unexpressed in the English versions, especially when used in apposition with another word . Compare 376.
Pronounce: en-oshe'
Origin: from 605
ceased
shabath (Hebrew #7673)
to repose, i.e. desist from exertion; used in many implied relations (causative, figurative or specific)
KJV usage: (cause to, let, make to) cease, celebrate, cause (make) to fail, keep (sabbath), suffer to be lacking, leave, put away (down), (make to) rest, rid, still, take away.
Pronounce: shaw-bath'
Origin: a primitive root
ζto answer
`anah (Hebrew #6030)
properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extens. to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce
KJV usage: give account, afflict (by mistake for 6031), (cause to, give) answer, bring low (by mistake for 6031), cry, hear, Leannoth, lift up, say, X scholar, (give a) shout, sing (together by course), speak, testify, utter, (bear) witness. See also 1042, 1043.
Pronounce: aw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
Job
'Iyowb (Hebrew #347)
hated (i.e. persecuted); Ijob, the patriarch famous for his patience
KJV usage: Job.
Pronounce: ee-yobe'
Origin: from 340
, because he was righteous
tsaddiyq (Hebrew #6662)
just
KJV usage: just, lawful, righteous (man).
Pronounce: tsad-deek'
Origin: from 6663
in his own eyes
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
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from answering.

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-5:  Elihu is angry with Job and his three friends.
6-10:  Because wisdom comes not from age, he excuses the boldness of his youth.
11-15:  He reproves them for not satisfying Job.
16-22:  His zeal to speak.
to answer.
Heb. from answering.
righteous.
Job 6:29• 29Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it. (Job 6:29)
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Job 10:2,7• 2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; show me wherefore thou contendest with me.
 7Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand. (Job 10:2,7)
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Job 13:15• 15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. (Job 13:15)
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Job 23:7• 7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. (Job 23:7)
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Job 27:4‑6• 4My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
 5God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
 6My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live. (Job 27:4‑6)
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Job 29:11‑17• 11When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
 12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
 13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
 14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
 15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
 16I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
 17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. (Job 29:11‑17)
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Job 31:1‑40• 1I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
 2For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
 3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
 4Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
 5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
 6Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
 7If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
 8Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
 9If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;
 10Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
 11For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
 12For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
 13If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
 14What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
 15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
 16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
 17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
 18(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
 19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
 20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
 21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
 22Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
 23For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
 24If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
 25If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
 26If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
 27And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
 28This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
 29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
 30Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
 31If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
 32The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
 33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
 34Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
 35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
 36Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
 37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
 38If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
 39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
 40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. (Job 31:1‑40)
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Job 33:9• 9I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. (Job 33:9)
• {Chs. 32-37} The manifestation of God’s character of holiness and of mercy, as exhibited in the testimony of Elihu. (“Job 32-37” by S. Ridout)
• The emptiness and failure of the controversy (chaps. 32-33:7).... The whole forms an admirable opening, in which modesty, indignation, earnestness and graciousness are blended together. (“Job 32-37” by S. Ridout)
• (1) Explanatory introduction (vers. 1-5). (“Job 32-37” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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