Job 32:17

I said, I will answer also my part,.... Or take his turn in giving an answer to Job; what they had given being quite insufficient and unsuitable:

I also will show mine opinion; knowledge, or…

I also will show mine opinion - In this language, as in Job 32:6, there is a delicate expression of modesty in the Hebrew which does not appear in our translation. It is אף־אני 'aph 'ănı̂y - even I.…

I will answer also my part - אענה חלקי aaneh chelki, "I will recite my portion." We have already seen that the book of Job is a sort of drama, in which several persons have their different parts to…

Three things here apologize for Elihu's interposing as he does in this controversy which had already been canvassed by such acute and learned disputants: -

1. That the stage was clear, and he did not…

Job 32:32 is most naturally to be taken as a question,

16. And shall I wait because they speak not,

Because they stand still and answer no more?

17. I will answer also my part, &c.

The…