Marginal Notes in the KJV (1611)
Job 32:15
they let off speaking:
Heb. they removed speeches from themselves
they let off speaking:
Heb. they removed speeches from themselves
Verse Job 32:15. _THEY WERE AMAZED_] Mr. _Good_ translates: "They (the _speeches_) are dissipated; they no longer produce effect; the words have flirted away from them." Your words, being without pro...
THEY WERE AMAZED - There also are the words of Elihu, and are designed to express his astonishment that the three friends of Job did not answer him. He says that they were completely silenced, and he...
CHAPTER S 32--33:7 _ 1. Elihu introduced (Job 32:1)_ 2. I waited, but now must speak (Job 32:6) 3. His address to Job (Job 33:1) Job 32:1. As
If the friends have nothing to say, that is no reason for Elihu's silence. He is full of words, and must give them vent. The fear of God will prevent his showing partiality....
Turning from the three friends Elihu seems to speak in soliloquy and present to his own mind the singular situation: the three friends are discomfited before Job and reduced to silence; this should no...
_they left off speaking_ lit. _words have removed_, or, _are gone from them_(Genesis 12:8) they are reduced to silence....
TEXT 32:11-22 11 BEHOLD, I WAITED FOR YOUR WORDS, I listened for your reasonings, Whilst ye searched out what to say. 12 Yea, I attended onto you, And, behold, there was none that convinced Job, O...
_THEY WERE AMAZED, THEY ANSWERED NO MORE: THEY LEFT OFF SPEAKING._ Here Elihu turns from the friends to Job, and so passes from the second person to the third; a transition frequent in a rebuke (Job...
32:15 amazed, (f-3) Or 'were afraid.'...
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU It is the view of almost all scholars that the speeches of Elihu are a later addition. The grounds for this view are the following. His presence comes upon the reader with surpri...
Elihu describes the discomfiture of the friends....
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 32 ELIHU PREPARES HIS SPEEC...
In Job 2:13, the three friends were silent because Job’s words upset them. But now they had argued with Job. And so nobody wanted to speak, except Elihu. He had waited patiently during their long spee...
THEY WERE AMAZED. — The force is given better by substituting the present tense, “They are amazed, they answer no more: they have not a word to say.”...
חַ֭תּוּ לֹא ־עָ֣נוּ עֹ֑וד הֶעְתִּ֖יקוּ מֵהֶ֣ם...
XXV. POST-EXILIC WISDOM Job 32:1; Job 33:1; Job 34:1 A PERSONAGE hitherto unnamed in the course of the drama now assumes the place of critic and judge between Job and his friends. Elihu, son of Bara...
ELIHU ENTERS Job 32:1 The controversy between Job and his counselors is now at an end. They have failed in making out their case; but before God Himself takes up the argument there is another side of...
The last voice in the earthly controversy is now heard. It is a new voice, and opportunity never comes to Job to answer. Moreover, God in the final movements takes no notice other than that of interru...
_They. Eliu speaks thus contemptuously of the three friends, as if they had been absent. In the former verse he spoke to them: now he turns to Job. Hebrew, "they were amazed." (Haydock)_...
(6) В¶ And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion. (7) I said, Days should speak, and mult...
Elihu's Speeches I. INTRODUCTION A. In our last study of the book of Job (Chapter s 11-14), - Job had just replied to Zophar's speech. 1. Chapter 14 concludes the "first round" of speeches by Job's...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 32 THROUGH 37. But these spiritual affections of Job did not prevent his turning this consciousness of integrity into a robe of self-righteousness which hid G...
THEY WERE AMAZED,.... They were like persons thunderstruck, quite surprised and astonished to hear a young man talk after this manner: THEY ANSWERED NO MORE; as they had ceased to answer Job, they di...
_They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking._ Ver. 15. _They were amazed_] As if they had seen Medusa's head, _Gr. Myth. One of the three Gorgons whose head, with snakes for hair...
_They were amazed_ Job's three friends stood mute, like persons amazed, not knowing what to reply to his arguments, and wondering at his bold and confident assertions concerning his integrity, and his...
They were amazed, they answered no more; they left off speaking, words had fled away from them, had deserted them. This sentence has the force of an exclamation, caused by the surprise which Elihu fel...
ELIHU GIVES THE REASON FOR HIS SPEAKING...
Since his three friends have been silenced by Job's strong declaration of self-righteousness, our attention is drawn to a young man who has been a silent observer of this interesting drama. There appe...
Seeing that the three friends had run out of words, Elihu felt it was time to speak. "Elihu surveys the situation. Job's opponents have been muted, but does that suggest that he should remain silent t...
15-22 If we are sure that the Spirit of God suggested what we are about to say, still we ought to refrain, till it comes to our turn to speak. God is the God of order, not of confusion. It is great r...
THEY, i.e. Job's three friends, of whom he speaks some times, in the second, and here in the third person, directing his speech to Job and the auditors of this disputation. WERE AMAZED; they stood mut...
Job 32:15 dismayed H2865 (H8804) answer H6030 (H8804) Words H4405 escape H6275 (H8689) amazed -...
CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse, stating his reasons for interfering. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Elihu, friends. CONCLUSION: One who is jealous of the honor of God cannot be grieved when injury is plainly do...
Job 32:2. _Elihu._ The Greek copies read Elihuz, the same as they write Elijah. The critics refer us for his genealogy to Huz the son of Nahor; for Ram is thought to be Abraham; but a similarity of na...
JOB 32:1 Elihu: Suffering as a Discipline. A new speaker, Elihu, is introduced (Job 32:1), followed by an uninterrupted record of his speeches (Job 32:6). Th
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 32:6 Elihu’s opening speech repeats what the introductory section has described (vv. Job 32:1). Elihu directs his remarks primarily at the three friends....
NOTES Job 32:2. “_Elihu_” אֱלִיהוּא “my God is He;” or, according to some: “My God is Jehovab.” Various opinions concerning him, both as to his personality, speeches, and character. He has been consid...
EXPOSITION A new personage is now introduced upon the scene, who speaks in a new style and almost in a new language. No previous mention has been made of him; no subsequent notice is taken of his argu...
So sitting nearby was a young man whose name was Elihu. So these three men [Bildad, Zophar, and Eliphaz] cease to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. Then was kindled the wrath of E...
Job 29:22; Job 6:24; Job 6:25; Matthew 22:22; Matthew 22:26;...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3