Job 32:15
in Job 32Job’s friends are dismayed, with no more to say; words have escaped them.
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ASV
They are amazed, they answer no more: They have not a word to say.
KJV
They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
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This verse in Job 32
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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 repeats this to call attention to the remarkable fact that men who began so confidently, and who still held on to their opinion, had not one word more to say.
This site's exposition
friends are dismayed, with no more to say
on Job 32:15-17
“Job’s friends are dismayed, with no more to say” marks their silence as final. He takes that silence as his opening: “I too will answer; yes, I will declare what I know”. Delitzsch reads the repeated waiting and declaring as Elihu building his standing on the debate's exhaustion.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church2 voices
He intends to excuse himself in the answer he will give, not only in their eyes, but also in the eyes of others, and therefore, he turns his discourse to others saying, "They have been terrified," to speak further lest they be more clearly convinced, …
A commentator
Gregory the DialogistMorals on the Book of Job, Book XXIII · Written before 604.
proposed
They were afraid, they answered no more, they removed speech from themselves. The friends of Job are well said to have been afraid of the words of Eliu, since frequently proud defenders of the Church, though they do not observe due order in what they say, yet confound the adversaries by the very virtue of their words.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
They were amazed,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
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 proper reference and point, are scattered into thin air: there is nothing but sound in them; they are quite destitute of sense. But I prefer the words as spoken of Job’s friends. They took their several parts in the controversy as long as they could hope to maintain their ground: for a considerable time they had been able to bring nothing new; at last, weary of their own repetitions, they gave up the contest.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
He did not set up words against me This is a plaint: Woe that he did not set up words against me.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| חַ֭תּוּ | chatu | they are dismayed | H2865 → | 52 times |
| לֹא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| עָ֣נוּ | ʾanu | they have answered | H6030 → | 331 times |
| ע֑וֹד | od | again | H5750 → | 490 times |
| הֶעְתִּ֖יקוּ | he'tiku | they have moved away | H6275 → | 9 times |
| מֵהֶ֣ם | mehem | from <the> them | ||
| מִלִּֽים׃ | milim | words | H4405 → | 38 times |
חַ֭תּוּthey are dismayed
chatuH2865 →52 times
לֹא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
עָ֣נוּthey have answered
ʾanuH6030 →331 times
ע֑וֹדagain
odH5750 →490 times
הֶעְתִּ֖יקוּthey have moved away
he'tikuH6275 →9 times
מֵהֶ֣םfrom <the> them
mehem
מִלִּֽים׃words
milimH4405 →38 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Matthew 7:23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’
it leads to
- Matthew 25:41
Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
- Psalms 6:8
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
- Luke 13:27
And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’
- Luke 13:25
After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where…
- Matthew 25:12
But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I do not know you.’
- Matthew 25:41
Through
Job 29:22After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 32:2
Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
- Matthew 22:46
No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 32:2
Through
Matthew 22:46No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.
it leads to
- Mark 12:34
When Jesus saw that the man had answered wisely, He said, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to question Him any further.
- Mark 12:34
About Job
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Book of Job; Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIII; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.