Ayub 32:6

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Lalu berbicaralah Elihu bin Barakheel, orang Bus itu: "Aku masih muda dan kamu sudah berumur tinggi; oleh sebab itu aku malu dan takut mengemukakan pendapatku kepadamu.

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Lalu berbicaralah Elihu bin Barakheel, orang Bus itu: "Aku masih muda dan kamu sudah berumur tinggi; oleh sebab itu aku malu dan takut mengemukakan pendapatku kepadamu.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Sebab itu disahut Elihu bin Berakhiel, orang Buzi itu, katanya: Adapun aku ini sedikit jua umurku, tetapi kamulah orang uban; sebab itu takutlah dan seganlah aku menyatakan kepadamu perasaan hatiku.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I am: Leviticus 19:32, Romans 13:7, 1 Timothy 5:1, Titus 2:6, 1 Peter 5:5

young: Heb. few of days

ye are: Job 15:10

durst not: Heb. feared, Job 15:7, 1 Samuel 17:28-30

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 3:7 - a little Job 8:8 - inquire Job 12:13 - him Psalms 37:25 - I have Proverbs 16:31 - hoary Galatians 2:6 - it maketh

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said,.... Since there was no answer in them, he takes upon him to give one himself; but first makes an apology on account of his youth:

I [am] young, and ye [are] very old; or "few of days"; a few days, comparatively speaking, had he lived in the world; or "small", or "little as two days" m; he had been but a little time in it, and so could be thought to have but little knowledge and experience; whereas they were old, even very old; with them were the aged and the grayheaded, Job 15:10; in whom it might have been expected was much wisdom and knowledge:

wherefore I was afraid, and durst not show mine opinion; declare what knowledge he had of the things in dispute, lest it should appear mean, small, and contemptible; or give his sentiments concerning them, lest he should speak wrongly, and not only give offence, but do more harm than good: the first of these words, in the Arabic language n, as Aben Ezra observes, signifies to go back; it is used of worms, which, through fear, withdraw themselves from men; so mean an opinion had he of himself, and such a sense of his own weakness, that it not only kept him back, but even caused him to draw back, and keep out of the dispute, and at a distance from it, instead of being forward to engage in it: one Jewish commentator o paraphrases it

"I humbled myself as one that goes on his belly;''

referring to worms that go low and creep upon their belly, or to the prostrate posture of men that humble themselves to their superiors.

m צעיר אני לימים "minimus ego diebus", Montanus; "parvus diebus sum", Mercerus. n "recessit suo loco", Castel. col. 1036. o Sephorno.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And Elihu - “said, I am young” Margin, few of days. The Hebrew is, “I am small (צעיר tsâ‛ı̂yr) of days;” that is, I am inexperienced. We have no means of ascertaining his exact age, though it is evident that there was a considerable disparity between them and him.

And ye are very old - ישׁישׁים yâshı̂yshiym. The word used here is probably derived from the obsolete root שוש, “to be white, hoary”; and hence, to be hoary-headed, or aged; compare 2 Chronicles 36:17. The whole of the discourses of the friends of Job seem to imply that they were aged men. They laid claim to great experience, and professed to have had opportunities of long observation, and it is probable that they were regarded as sages, who, by the long observation of events, had acquired the reputation of great wisdom.

Wherefore I was afraid - He was timid, bashful, diffident.

And durst not show you mine opinion - Margin, feared. He had that diffidence to which modesty prompts in the presence of the aged. He had formed his opinion as the argument proceeded, but he did not deem it proper that one so young should interfere, even when he thought he perceived that others were wrong.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 32:6. I am young — How young he was, or how old they were, we cannot tell; but there was no doubt a great disparity in their ages; and among the Asiatics the youth never spoke in the presence of the elders, especially on any subject of controversy.