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Job 32 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 32
Elihu Contradicts Job’s Friends
Elihu Contradicts Job’s Friends
1 So these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. 2 Then the wrath of Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was aroused against Job; his wrath was aroused because he justified himself rather than God. 3 Also against his three friends his wrath was aroused, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
4 Now because they were years older than he, Elihu had waited to speak to Job.[fn] 5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was aroused.
6 So Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, answered and said:
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​​“I am young in years, and you are very old;
​​Therefore I was afraid,
​​And dared not declare my opinion to you.
7 ​​I said, ‘Age[fn] should speak,
​​And multitude of years should teach wisdom.’
8 ​​But there is a spirit in man,
​​And the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding.
9 ​​Great men[fn] are not always wise,
​​Nor do the aged always understand justice.
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10 ​​“Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me,
​​I also will declare my opinion.’
11 ​​Indeed I waited for your words,
​​I listened to your reasonings, while you searched out what to say.
12 ​​I paid close attention to you;
​​And surely not one of you convinced Job,
​​Or answered his words—
13 ​​Lest you say,
​‘​We have found wisdom’;
​​God will vanquish him, not man.
14 ​​Now he has not directed his words against me;
​​So I will not answer him with your words.
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15 ​​“They are dismayed and answer no more;
​​Words escape them.
16 ​​And I have waited, because they did not speak,
​​Because they stood still and answered no more.
17 ​​I also will answer my part,
​​I too will declare my opinion.
18 ​​For I am full of words;
​​The spirit within me compels me.
19 ​​Indeed my belly is like wine that has no vent;
​​It is ready to burst like new wineskins.
20 ​​I will speak, that I may find relief;
​​I must open my lips and answer.
21 ​​Let me not, I pray, show partiality to anyone;
​​Nor let me flatter any man.
22 ​​For I do not know how to flatter,
​​Else my Maker would soon take me away.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Vulgate reads till Job had spoken.
Literally Days, that is, years
Or Men of many years
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