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Job 32:1

Job 32:1
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

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 unbecoming heat, a young man is raised up to be the…

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