the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Job 32:1
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Job's three friends refused to reply further to him because he kept insisting on his innocence.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
These three men stopped trying to answer Job, because he was so sure he was right.
So these three men refused to answer Job further, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he [was] righteous in his own eyes.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
So these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes [and could not be persuaded otherwise by them].
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Forsothe these thre men leften of to answere Joob, for he semyde a iust man to hem.
So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Finally, these three men stopped arguing with Job, because he refused to admit that he was guilty.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
So these three men gave no more answers to Job, because he seemed to himself to be right.
So these three men stopped trying to answer Iyov, because he remained convinced of his own righteousness.
And these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Then Job's three friends gave up trying to answer him, because he was so sure that he was innocent.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, {P}
So these three men ceased to answere Iob, because he was righteous in his owne eyes.
Then these three men stopped answering Job, because he was right and good in his own eyes.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
So these three men ceased to answere Iob, because he esteemed himselfe iust.
SO these three men who wanted to condemn Job ceased answering him, because he was found righteous in their eyes.
Because Job was convinced of his own innocence, the three men gave up trying to answer him.
So these three men ceased to respond to Job, because, he, was righteous in their eyes.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just to himself.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
So these three men ceassed to aunswere Iob, because he held him selfe a righteous man.
And his three friends also ceased any longer to answer Job: for Job was righteous before them.
So these three men quit answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
So these three men ceased to answer Iyov, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Then these three men ceased from answering Job because he was righteous in his own eyes.
And these three men rested from answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
And these three men cease from answering Job, for he [is] righteous in his own eyes,
So these thre men wolde stryue nomore wt Iob, because he helde himself a rightuous man.
Then these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
So these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Then these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Then these three men ceased answering Job because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
to answer: Heb. from answering
righteous: Job 6:29, Job 10:2, Job 10:7, Job 13:15, Job 23:7, Job 27:4-6, Job 29:11-17, Job 31:1-40, Job 33:9
Reciprocal: Job 9:20 - justify Job 13:5 - General Job 32:3 - because Job 33:5 - If Job 34:5 - I
Cross-References
And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's;
To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
So these three men ceased to answer Job,.... His three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, who came to visit and comfort him under his afflictions; but unawares were led into a controversy with him, occasioned by some rash and impatient expressions of his; which controversy had been carried on between them a considerable time, but now dropped; they grew weary of it, and now rested themselves as men do on a sabbath, as the word signifies; they set themselves down, and made no reply to Job's vindication of himself, not caring to give themselves any further trouble, or labour the point any more and longer, perceiving it was all to no purpose: or "and these three men ceased", c. the last words of the preceding chapter are, "the words of Job are ended", Job 31:40 and the copulative "and" connects these with them, and shows that these men also had done speaking; so that the dispute was closed between Job and them, and the way was clear for another disputant that might think fit to enter, as Elihu did, after mentioned
because he [was] righteous in his own eyes; some take this to express the state of the question between them, rendering the words, "that he was righteous", c. f. The notion his friends had of him was, that he was righteous in his own account, and as he professed to be, and might so seem to others but was a wicked man, and an hypocrite, as his afflictions showed; this point they had been labouring to prove, but, upon Job's long and clear vindication of his integrity, they ceased to defend it: others suppose the words to be an inference of Job's from their silence: "therefore he was righteous", c. they making no reply to him, he concluded himself to be quit and clear of the charge they had brought against him but they rather, according to our version, contain a reason why they ceased to answer him; because they thought him self-conceited, self-willed, obstinate, and incorrigible; not open to conviction, stiffly insisting on his own innocence, not allowing that he was guilty of any sin or sins, which were the cause of his afflictions; otherwise, in the article of justification before God, Job was no self-righteous man, nor was he so charged by his friends; to say he was is to abuse his character, and is contrary to that which God himself has given of him; nor would he have so highly commended him as to suggest there was none like him on earth, when of all men in the world there are none more abominable to God than a self-righteous man; see Isaiah 65:4. It is contrary to Job's knowledge of and faith in Christ, as his living Redeemer, Job 19:25; and to many clear and strong expressions, confessing his sin, disclaiming perfection, and declaring himself no self-justiciary, Job 7:20.
f כי חוא צדיק "quod ille (tantum) justus in oculis suis", Schmidt.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
So these three men ceased to answer Job - Each had had three opportunities of replying to him, though in the last series of the controversy Zophar had been silent. Now all were silent; and though they do not appear in the least to have been convinced, or to have changed their opinion, yet they found no arguments with which to sustain their views. It was this, among other things, which induced Elihu to take up the subject.
Because he was righteous in his own eyes - Umbreit expresses the sense of this by adding, “and they could not convince him of his unrighteousness.” It was not merely because he was righteous in his own estimation, that they ceased to answer him; it was because their arguments had no effect in convincing him, and they had nothing new to say. He seemed to be obstinately bent on maintaining his own good opinion of himself in spite of all their reasoning, and they sat down in silence.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XXXII
Elihu comes forward, and empresses his disapprobation both of
Job and his three friends-with the one for justifying himself;
and with the others for taking up the subject in a wrong point
of view, and not answering satisfactorily-and makes a becoming
apology for himself, 1-22.
NOTES ON CHAP. XXXII
Verse Job 32:1. These three men ceased to answer Job — They supposed that it was of no use to attempt to reason any longer with a man who justified himself before God. The truth is, they failed to convince Job of any point, because they argued from false principles; and, as we have seen, Job had the continual advantage of them. There were points on which he might have been successfully assailed; but they did not know them. Elihu, better acquainted both with human nature and the nature of the Divine law, and of God's moral government of the world, steps in, and makes the proper discriminations; acquits Job on the ground of their accusations, but condemns him for his too great self-confidence, and his trusting too much in his external righteousness; and, without duly considering his frailty and imperfections, his incautiously arraigning the providence of God of unkindness in its dealings with him. This was the point on which Job was particularly vulnerable, and which Elihu very properly clears up.
Because he was righteous tn his own eyes — The Septuagint, Syriac, Arabic, and Chaldee, all read, "Because he was righteous in THEIR eyes;" intimating, that they were now convinced that he was a holy man, and that they had charged him foolishly. The reading of these ancient versions is supported by a MS. of the thirteenth century, in Dr. Kennicott's collections; which, instead of בעיניו beeinaiv, in His eyes, has בעיניהם beeineyhem, in THEIR eyes. This is a reading of considerable importance, but it is not noticed by De Rossi. Symmachus translates nearly in the same way: Δια τον αυτον δικαιον φαινεσθαι επ' αυτων; Because he appeared more righteous than themselves.
