Job 32:1 BSB — MannaFest

Job 32:1

So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

KJV

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

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Commentary

3 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIII (604)

These three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just in his own eyes. In the expression, because he seemed to be just in his own eyes, the author of this sacred history intended to refer to the opinion of Job's friends, and did not himself accuse him of being puffed up with pride.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

But they did not judge fairly concerning Job: he was really righteous before God, and not righteous in his own eyes only; so that it was only to save their own credit that they made this the reason of their silence, as peevish disputants commonly do when they find themselves run a-ground and are not willing to own themselves unable to make their part good.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַֽיִּשְׁבְּת֡וּ	vai.yish.be.Tu	and they ceased	H7673 →
שְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת	she.Lo.shet	[the] three	H7969 →
הָאֲנָשִׁ֣ים	ha.'a.na.Shim	the men	H582 →
הָ֭אֵלֶּה	Ha.'e.leh	<the> these	H428 →
מֵעֲנ֣וֹת	me.'a.Not	from answering	H6030 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
אִיּ֑וֹב	'i.Yov	Job	H347 →
כִּ֤י	ki	for	H3588 →
ה֖וּא	hu'	he	H1931 →
צַדִּ֣יק	tza.Dik	[was] righteous	H6662 →
בְּעֵינָֽיו׃ פ	be.'ei.Nav	in own eyes his	H5869 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Job 13:15
Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
leads to
- Psalms 23:4
  Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
- Job 23:10
  Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
- Job 19:25–28
  But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
- Romans 8:38–39
  For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
- 1 John 3:20
  Even if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and He knows all things.
Through
Job 10:2
I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
leads to
- Psalms 139:23–24
  Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
Through
Job 33:9
‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
leads to
- Job 16:17
  yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.
- Job 10:7
  though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Job