Job 32:1-42:17 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 32:1-5

Usually young men are the disputants and old men the moderators; but here, when old men were the disputants, as a rebuke to them for their unbecoming heat, a young man is raised up to be the moderator. Divers of Job's friends were present, that came to visit him and to receive instruction. Now here we have, I. The reason why his three friends were now silent. They ceased to answer him, and let him have his saying, because he was righteous in his own eyes. This was the reason they gave why they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 32:1

So these three men ceased to answer Job ,.... His three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, who came to visit and comfort him under his afflictions; but unawares were led into a controversy with him, occasioned by some rash and impatient expressions of his; which controversy had been carried on between them a considerable time, but now dropped; they grew weary of it, and now rested themselves as men do on a sabbath, as the word signifies; they set... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 32:1

These three men ceased to answer Job - They supposed that it was of no use to attempt to reason any longer with a man who justified himself before God. The truth is, they failed to convince Job of any point, because they argued from false principles; and, as we have seen, Job had the continual advantage of them. There were points on which he might have been successfully assailed; but they did not know them. Elihu, better acquainted both with human nature and the nature of the Divine law, and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 32:1

So these three men ceased to answer Job . Zophar had been silenced earlier. Eliphaz and Bildad now felt that they had no more to say. They had exhausted the weapons of their armoury without any effect, and were conscious that nothing would be gained by mere reiteration. All their efforts had aimed at convincing Job of sin; and he was still unconvinced— he remained righteous in his own eyes. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 32:1

Silence after the storm. The three friends first comforted Job with seven days of silence ( Job 2:13 ). They relapse into silence after their painful controversy with the suffering man. We feel a sense of relief, and breathe freely now that their dogmatic delusions are done with, and we have silence after the storm. I. IT IS WISE TO KNOW WHEN TO BE SILENT . We cannot attribute much of this wisdom to the three friends. They would have been more commendable if they had... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 32:1-5

The discourse of Elihu is prefaced by a short introduction in plain prose, explaining who he was, and giving the reasons which actuated him in coming forward at this point of the dialogue. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 32:1-5

The intervention of Elihu. I. THE DISCOMFITURE OF THE FRIENDS . "So these three men"—Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar—"ceased to answer Job;" i.e. did not respond to the lamentations and protestations which he uttered in his parable. 1 . The reason they perhaps assigned for their silence. "Because he," i.e. Job, "was righteous in his own eyes." If this was scarcely accurate in the strict theological sense of the expression, since Job had more than once acknowledged himself a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 32:1-22

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 32:1-22

The voice of juvenile self-confidence. We now approach the solution of the mystery, the untying of the knot, the end of the controversy. Job's three friends have failed to convince Job that he is suffering the wellmented consequences of evil-doing; and he has failed to convince them of his integrity. Now a younger friend speaks with kindled wrath because the three friends "had found no answer." He speaks with the undue confidence of youth; but he weaves many words of truth and wisdom into... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 32:1

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.Because he was righteous in his own eyes - Umbreit expresses the sense of... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 32:1-5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 32:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 32:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 32:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 32:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 32:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 32:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 32:1-22

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 32:1-22

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 32:1

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