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Job 32:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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from answering.

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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, let there be no wrong;{HR}Yea, return; I am still right therein. (Job 6:29)

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Job 10:2,7• ²I will say to God, Condemn me not;{HR}Let me know why thou contendest with me,
⁷Upon thy knowledge that I am not guilty,{HR}And that none can deliver out of thy hand? (Job 10:2,7)

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Job 13:15• ¹⁵Lo, he will slay me, yet will I trust him;{HR}But my ways to his face I will argue. (Job 13:15)

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Job 23:7• ⁷There would a righteous one be pleading with him,{HR}And I should be forever quit of my judge. (Job 23:7)

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Job 27:4‑6• ⁴My lips shall not speak wickedness,{HR}Nor my tongue utter deceit.
⁵Abomination to me if I justify you!{HR}Till I expire I will not part from mine integrity:
⁶I hold to my righteousness, and will not let it go:{HR}Of my days my heart reproacheth not. (Job 27:4‑6)

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Job 29:11‑17• ¹¹For the ear heard and praised me,{HR}And an eye saw and testified to me.
¹²For I delivered the poor that cried,{HR}And the fatherless that had no helper.
¹³The blessing of the perishing came on me,{HR}And the heart of the widow I made sing.
¹⁴Righteousness I put on, and it put me on,{HR}As a robe and a diadem mine equity.
¹⁵I was eyes to the blind,{HR}And feet [was] I to the lame,
¹⁶A father to the needy,{HR}And the cause I knew not I searched.
¹⁷And I broke the jaw of the wicked,{HR}And flung the prey out of his teeth. (Job 29:11‑17)

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Job 31:1‑40• ¹I have presented a covenant to mine eyes,{HR}And how should I think on a maiden?
²And what [would be] the portion of God [Eloah] from above,{HR}And inheritance of Shaddai from on high?
³[Is there] not destruction to the wicked,{HR}And a strange [dream] to the workers of iniquity?
⁴Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
⁵If I walked with falsehood, and my foot hasted to deceit,
⁶(Let him weigh me in a balance of justice,{HR}And let God [Eloah] know mine integrity,)
⁷If my step turned aside from the way,{HR}And my heart walked after mine eyes,{HR}And a blot cleaved to my hands,
⁸Let me sow, and another eat, and my produce be uprooted.
⁹If my heart was enticed about a woman,{HR}And I laid wait at my neighbour’s door,
¹⁰Let my wife grind for another, and others bow down on her.
¹¹For this [is] an infamy, and that a crime for a judge.
¹²For a fire it [is], it consumeth to destruction,{HR}And it would uproot all my increase.
¹³If I despised the right of my bondman{HR}Or of my bondmaid, in their contending with me,
¹⁴What then shall I do when God [El] ariseth?{HR}And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
¹⁵In the belly did not he that made me make him?{HR}And did not One fashion us in the womb?
¹⁶If I kept back the poor from [their] desire,{HR}And the eyes of the widow made to pine,
¹⁷Or ate my morsel by myself,{HR}And the orphan had not eaten of it
¹⁸(For from my path I brought him up as a father,{HR}And her I guided from my mother’s womb);
¹⁹If I saw [any] perishing without clothing,{HR}And the needy without covering;
²⁰If his loins blessed me not,{HR}And he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
²¹If I shook my hand over the orphan,{HR}When I saw my help in the gate;
²²Let my shoulder fall from the blade,{HR}And mine arm be broken from the bone.
²³For the destruction of God [El] was a terror to me,{HR}And before his majesty I was powerless.
²⁴If I made gold my confidence,{HR}And to the pure gold said, My trust;
²⁵If I rejoiced because my weal [was] great,{HR}And because my hand found much;
²⁶If I saw the light when it shineth{HR}And the moon walking splendidly,
²⁷And my heart was secretly enticed{HR}And my hand kissed my mouth
²⁸(And this were a crime for judges,{HR}For to God (El) above I had lied);
²⁹If I rejoiced over the ruin of my hater,{HR}And got uplifted when evil found him;—
³⁰Yea, I suffered not my palate to sin{HR}By asking that his soul might be under a curse;
³¹If the men of my tent said not,{HR}Who giveth one not satisfied with his flesh?
³²The stranger passed not the night in the street;{HR}I opened my doors to the traveler;
³³If I, like Adam, covered my transgressions,{HR}Hiding in my bosom mine iniquity,
³⁴Because I feared the great multitude,{HR}And the contempt of families terrified me,{HR}So that I am silent, I go not out of the door.
³⁵O that One would hear me! Lo, my sign.{HR}Let Shaddai answer me,{HR}And mine adversary with the charge:
³⁶Would I not carry it on my shoulder?{HR}I would bind it as crowns on me.
³⁷The number of my steps I would tell him,{HR}As a prince would I go near to him.
³⁸If my land cry out against me,{HR}And its furrows weep together,
³⁹If its strength I consumed without wrong,{HR}And caused the soul of its owners to expire,
⁴⁰Instead of wheat let thorns come up,{HR}And weeds instead of barley.{HR}The words of Job are ended. (Job 31:1‑40)

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Job 33:9• ⁹I am pure, without transgression,{HR}I [am] clean, and have no iniquity: (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.

W. Kelly Translation

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And these three men ceased answering Job, because he [was] righteous in his own eyes.