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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 there be no wrong; yea, return again, my righteousness shall be in it. (Job 6:29)
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Job 10:2,7• 2I will say unto +God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou strivest with me.
 7Since thou knowest that I am not wicked, and that there is none that delivereth out of thy hand? (Job 10:2,7)
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Job 13:15• 15Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him. (Job 13:15)
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Job 23:7• 7There would an upright man reason with him; and I should be delivered for ever from my judge. (Job 23:7)
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Job 27:4‑6• 4My lips shall not speak unrighteousness, nor my tongue utter deceit!
 5Be it far from me that I should justify you; till I die I will not remove my blamelessness from me.
 6My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart reproacheth me not one of my days. (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;
 12For I delivered the afflicted that cried, and the fatherless who had no helper.
 13The blessing of him that was perishing came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
 14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was as a mantle and a turban.
 15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;
 16I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
 17And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, 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; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?
 2For what would have been my portion of +God from above, and what the heritage of the Almighty from on high?
 3Is not calamity for the unrighteous? and misfortune for the workers of iniquity?
 4Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?
 5If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot hath hasted to deceit,
 6(Let me be weighed in an even balance, and +God will take knowledge of my blamelessness;)
 7If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;
 8Let me sow, and another eat; and let mine offspring be rooted out.
 9If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,
 10Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
 11For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity to be judged by the judges:
 12For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
 13If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,
 14What then should I do when *God riseth up? and if he visited, what should 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 caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
 17Or have eaten my morsel alone, so that the fatherless ate not thereof,
 18(For from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, and I have guided the widow from my mother's womb;)
 19If I have seen any perishing for want of clothing, or any needy without covering;
 20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;
 21If I have lifted up my hand against an orphan, because I saw my help in the gate:
 22Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone!
 23For calamity from *God was a terror to me, and by reason of his excellency I was powerless.
 24If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence!
 25If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;
 26If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,
 27And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:
 28This also would be an iniquity for the judge, for I should have denied the *God who is above.
 29If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, and exulted when evil befell him;
 30(Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse;)
 31If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat?--
 32The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.
 33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,
 34Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and went not out of the door, …
 35Oh that I had one to hear me! Behold my signature: let the Almighty answer me! And let mine opponent write an accusation!
 36Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me as a crown;
 37I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I come near to him.
 38If my land cry out against me, and its furrows weep together;
 39If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:
 40Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and tares 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 pure, and there is no 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.