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Job 32 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Elihu Rebukes Job’s Three Friends

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:1 - So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:2 - Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:3 - He burned with anger also at Job’s three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:4 - Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:5 - And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, he burned with anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:6 - And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said:
“I am young in years,
and you are aged;
therefore I was timid and afraid
to declare my opinion to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:7 - I said, ‘Let days speak,
and many years teach wisdom.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:8 - But it is the spirit in man,
the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:9 - It is not the old[fn] who are wise,
nor the aged who understand what is right.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:10 - Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me;
let me also declare my opinion.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:11 - “Behold, I waited for your words,
I listened for your wise sayings,
while you searched out what to say.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:12 - I gave you my attention,
and, behold, there was none among you who refuted Job
or who answered his words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:13 - Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom;
God may vanquish him, not a man.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:14 - He has not directed his words against me,
and I will not answer him with your speeches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:15 - “They are dismayed; they answer no more;
they have not a word to say.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:16 - And shall I wait, because they do not speak,
because they stand there, and answer no more?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:17 - I also will answer with my share;
I also will declare my opinion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:18 - For I am full of words;
the spirit within me constrains me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:19 - Behold, my belly is like wine that has no vent;
like new wineskins ready to burst.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:20 - I must speak, that I may find relief;
I must open my lips and answer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:21 - I will not show partiality to any man
or use flattery toward any person.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:22 - For I do not know how to flatter,
else my Maker would soon take me away.
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Hebrew many [in years]
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Job Chapter 32 — Additional Translations:

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