
Text -- Job 32:3 (NET)




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To Job's arguments as to the main cause.
JFB -> Job 32:1-6; Job 32:3
And because they could not prove to him that he was unrighteous.

Though silenced in argument, they held their opinion still.
Clarke -> Job 32:3
Clarke: Job 32:3 - -- They had found no answer - They had condemned Job; and yet could not answer his arguments on the general subject, and in vindication of himself.
They had found no answer - They had condemned Job; and yet could not answer his arguments on the general subject, and in vindication of himself.
TSK -> Job 32:3
TSK: Job 32:3 - -- because : Job 32:1, Job 24:25, Job 25:2-6, Job 26:2-4
and yet : Job 8:6, Job 15:34, 22:5-30; Act 24:5, Act 24:13
because : Job 32:1, Job 24:25, Job 25:2-6, Job 26:2-4

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Barnes -> Job 32:3
Barnes: Job 32:3 - -- Because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job - They held Job to be guilty, and yet they were unable to adduce the proof of it, a...
Because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job - They held Job to be guilty, and yet they were unable to adduce the proof of it, and to reply to what he had said. They still maintained their opinion, though silenced in the argument. They were in that state of mind, not uncommon, in which they obstinately held on to an opinion which they could not vindicate, and believed another to be guilty, though they could not prove it.
Poole -> Job 32:3
Poole: Job 32:3 - -- They had found no answer to Job’ s allegations and arguments, as to the main cause.
Had condemned Job as a hypocrite or ungodly, man.
They had found no answer to Job’ s allegations and arguments, as to the main cause.
Had condemned Job as a hypocrite or ungodly, man.
Haydock -> Job 32:3
Haydock: Job 32:3 - -- Found. Hebrew, "produced an answer, but had still condemned Job;" (Haydock) or, "had made Job wicked," by giving him occasion to blaspheme, in ord...
Found. Hebrew, "produced an answer, but had still condemned Job;" (Haydock) or, "had made Job wicked," by giving him occasion to blaspheme, in order to defend his own righteousness. (Calmet) ---
Septuagint, "they took it for granted (or laid it down as a fact, Greek: ethento ) that he was a wretch." This was not true: (Haydock) but they had also doe their best to prove it. (Calmet) ---
Job. Almost all the Rabbins assert that the original copies read Jehova, "the Lord;" (Haydock) and that the Masorets changed it, to avoid the apparent blasphemy; as if the three friends had rendered themselves guilty by not answering Job. But the Chaldean, &c., are silent on this head, and Abenezra allows that the change is very doubtful. (Calmet)
Gill -> Job 32:3
Gill: Job 32:3 - -- Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled,.... He did not take part with either side, but blamed both, and took upon him to be a moderator ...
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled,.... He did not take part with either side, but blamed both, and took upon him to be a moderator between them, and deal impartially with them: what highly displeased him, and raised his spirit against the three friends of Job, was,
because they had found no answer; they were at a loss for one, for a sufficient one; they had all of them been answering him in their turns again and again, but with nothing to the purpose, not with anything conclusive and convincing; and particularly they could find and give no answer to Job's last vindication of himself:
and yet had condemned Job; as a very wicked man, and an hypocrite, for no other reason but because he was afflicted; and they still persisted in their sentiment, though Job had so fully cleared himself, and put them to entire silence; this exasperated Elihu, to observe these men to retain so unreasonable a sentiment, to pronounce such a rash sentence, and yet could make no reply to Job's defence of himself. Jarchi says, this place is one of the corrections of the Scribes, it having been formerly written "God" instead of "Job"; as if the sense was, that Elihu was provoked with them, because by their silence they had condemned the Lord, not vindicating his honour and glory as became them; but Aben Ezra declares his ignorance of that correction, and observes, that they that say so knew what was hid from him.

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TSK Synopsis -> Job 32:1-22
TSK Synopsis: Job 32:1-22 - --1 Elihu is angry with Job and his three friends.6 Because wisdom comes not from age, he excuses the boldness of his youth.11 He reproves them for not ...
MHCC -> Job 32:1-5
MHCC: Job 32:1-5 - --Job's friends were silenced, but not convinced. Others had been present. Elihu was justly displeased with Job, as more anxious to clear his own charac...
Matthew Henry -> Job 32:1-5
Matthew Henry: 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 unbecomin...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Job 32:1-3
Keil-Delitzsch: Job 32:1-3 - --
1-3 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. And the wrath of Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of th...
Constable -> Job 32:1--37:24; Job 32:1-5
Constable: Job 32:1--37:24 - --F. Elihu's Speeches chs. 32-37
Many critical scholars believe that a later editor inserted chapters 32-3...
