Job 32:7

32:7 I said to myself, ‘Age ¹  should speak, ² 

and length of years ³  should make wisdom known.’

Job 32:16

32:16 And I have waited. ⁴  But because they do not speak,

because they stand there and answer no more,

[32:7]  ¹ tn Heb “days.”

[32:7]  ² tn The imperfect here is to be classified as an obligatory imperfect.

[32:7]  ³ tn Heb “abundance of years.”

[32:16]  ⁴ tn Some commentators take this as a question: “And shall [or must] I wait because they do not speak?” (A. B. Davidson, R. Gordis). But this is not convincing because the silence of the friends is the reason for him to speak, not to wait.