The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
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Gill's Exposition
The nobles held their peace,.... These may be in some respects inferior to the others; not princes of the blood, or sons of kings, who were properly princes, and yet great personages, of a noble…
Barnes' Notes
The nobles - Margin, “The voice of the nobles was hid.” Literally, this may be rendered, “as to the voice the nobles hid themselves;” or the phrase here employed (נגידים קול נחבאו nechâbâ'û qôl…
We have here Job in a post of honour and power. Though he had comfort enough in his own house, yet he did not confine himself to that. We are not born for ourselves, but for the public. When any…
The meaning seems to be that Job's arrival put a stop to speech and discussion already going on, which was not resumed until he should be heard.