Job 32:3

With Job’s ¹  three friends he was also angry, because they could not find ²  an answer, and so declared Job guilty. ³ 

biblegateway Job 32:3

He was also angry with the three friends, because they had found no way to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.

biblegateway Job 32:3

And his anger burned against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

biblegateway Job 32:3

He was also angry with Job’s three friends because they had condemned God by their inability to answer Job’s arguments.

biblegateway Job 32:3

He was also angry with the three friends because they had neither come up with an answer nor proved Job wrong.

SABDAweb Job 32:3

And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job’s sin clear.

bibleoremus Job 32:3

he was angry also at Job’s three friends because they had found no answer, though they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

biblegateway Job 32:3

Also against his three friends his wrath was aroused, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

biblegateway Job 32:3

With Job’s ¹  three friends he was also angry, because they could not find ²  an answer, and so declared Job guilty. ³ 

¹ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Job) has been specified in the translation to indicate whose friends they were.

² tn The perfect verb should be given the category of potential perfect here.

³ tc This is one of the eighteen “corrections of the scribes” (tiqqune sopherim); it originally read, “and they declared God [in the wrong].” The thought was that in abandoning the debate they had conceded Job’s point.