Job 32:3

_SO THESE THREE MEN CEASED TO ANSWER JOB, BECAUSE HE WAS RIGHTEOUS IN HIS OWN EYES._ Prose (poetry begins with "I am young," Job 32:6). Verse 1. BECAUSE ... - and because they could not proves to him that he was unrighteous. Verse 2. ELIHU - meaning 'God is Yahweh.' In his name and character, as messenger between God and Job, he shadows forth Jesus Christ (Job 33:23). BARACHEL - meaning 'God blesses.' Both names indicate the piety of the family, and their separation from idolaters. BUZITE - Buz was son of Nahor, brother of Abraham. Hence, was named a region in Arabia Deserta (Jeremiah 25:23). Ram-Aram, nephew of Buz. Job was probably of an older generation than

1-5 Job's friends were silenced, but not convinced. Others had been present. Elihu was justly displeased with Job, as more anxious to clear his own character than the justice and goodness of God. Elihu was displeased with Job's friends because they had not been candid to Job. Seldom is a quarrel begun, more seldom is a quarrel carried on, in which there are not faults on both sides. Those that seek for truth, must not reject what is true and good on either side, nor approve or defend what is wrong....

Verse Job 32:3. _THEY HAD FOUND NO ANSWER_] They had condemned Job; and yet could not answer his arguments on the general subject, and in vindication of himself....

BECAUSE THEY HAD FOUND NO ANSWER, AND YET HAD CONDEMNED JOB - They held Job to be guilty, and yet they were unable to adduce the proof of it, and to reply to what he had said. They still maintained their opinion, though silenced in the argument. They were in that state of mind, not uncommon, in which they obstinately held on to an opinion which they could not vindicate, and believed another to be guilty, though they could not prove it....

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 arguments; and nothing is said of him in the historical section wherewith the work concludes (Job 42:7). It is therefore scarcely surprising that some exception has been taken to the genuineness of the entire passage (Job 32-37), or that it has been regarded by many excellent critics as an interpolation into the Book of Job, made by one who was not the original author, at a date considerably later than the rest of tile composition. A modification of this extreme view is suggested by M. Renan, who thinks that the original author may have added the passage in his old age. This view is entitled to consideration. The subject has been discussed at some length in the Introduction, so that no mor

ALSO AGAINST HIS THREE FRIENDS WAS HIS WRATH KINDLED,.... He did not take part with either side, but blamed both, and took upon him to be a moderator between them, and deal impartially with them: what highly displeased him, and raised his spirit against the three friends of Job, was, BECAUSE THEY HAD FOUND NO ANSWER; they were at a loss for one, for a sufficient one; they had all of them been answering him in their turns again and again, but with nothing to the purpose, not with anything conclusive and convincing; and particularly they could find and give no answer to Job's last vindication of himself: AND [YET] HAD CONDEMNED JOB; as a very wicked man, and an hypocrite, for no other reason but because he was afflicted; and they still persisted in their sentiment, though Job had so fully cleared himself, and put them to entire silence; this exasperated Elihu, to observe these men to ret...

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 Elihu had listened to the different addresses his wrath was stirred up. His name is very suggestive. Elihu means “my God is He”; Barachel--”the Blessed God”; the Buzite, “the rejected One” of Ram, and Ram means “exalted.” These are names which find their fullest application in the person of our Lord, whom Elihu in his mediatorial work represents. But why was his wrath kindled? Because Job justified himself rather than God and because Job's friends had found no solution of the problem, yet they c

Prose introduction, explaining the intervention of Elihu. Observe that whereas Job and his friends are introduced without genealogy it is not so with Elihu. His name means He is my God, that of Barachel his father God blesses. Buz is a Nahorite clan, according to Genesis 22:21. Uz and Buz were brothers....

CONDEMNED JOB. The primitive text reads "condemned God", but was altered from motives of false reverence by the _Sopherim_ to "Job". See App-33....

BECAUSE THEY HAD FOUND NO ANSWER, &C.— Because _they had found no answer whereby they might convict Job._...