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And Elihu went on to say:

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ASV

Moreover Elihu answered and said,

KJV

Elihu spake moreover, and said,

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This verse in Job 35

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Eliu therefore spake these words again. Every one, who says many things, is anxious to be always beginning, in his speech, in order, by this very beginning, to keep his hearers in suspense, so that they may be the more attentively silent, the more they expect, as it were, to hear some new thing. But Eliu, finishing one subject, begins another without delay, in order that his loquacity may be continued without limit, by beginnings being constantly joined on.

This site's exposition

And Elihu went on to say

on Job 35:1-4

Elihu opens his third speech by restating a charge against Job. Henry notes that Elihu summarizes Job instead of quoting him, tightening what Job argued in chapters 9 and 10 into one hard claim. Gill reads verse 3, “What does it profit me”, as Job's question turned into a complaint.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Elihu spake moreover, and said. Elihu very probably paused awhile, and waited to observe whether any of the company would rise up, and either contradict and refute what he had said, or declare their assent unto it and approbation of it; or rather to see whether Job would make any reply or not; but perceiving no inclination in him to it, he proceeded to take notice of some other undue expressions of Job, and refute them; one of which is observed in Job 35:2, and the proof of it given in Job 35:3.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Elihu spake - Hebrew, ויען vaya‛an “And he answered”; the word “answer” being used, as it is often in the Scriptures, to denote the commencement of a discourse. We may suppose that Elihu had paused at the close of his second discourse, possibly with a view to see whether there was any disposition to reply.

The words behind it

3 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וַיַּ֥עַןand he answered

    vaiyaanH6030 →331 times

  • אֱלִיה֗וּElihu

    ʾelihuH453 →11 times

  • וַיֹּאמַֽר׃and he said

    vaiyomarH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Job Hears of His Misfortunes, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Job: the study guide →Read Job 35 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVI; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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