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Job 33:32

Job 33:32
If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

If thou hast anything to say, answer me,.... Any thing to object to what he had delivered, or any answer to return to what he had charged him with:

speak, for I desire to justify thee. Elihu was a…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

If thou hast anything to say, answer me - In the previous verse, Elihu had asked that Job would hear all that he had to say. Yet here, in view of what he had said, he asks of him that if there were…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

If thou hast any thing to say - If thou hast any objection to make against what I have already stated, now answer, now speak freely; for it is my desire that thou shouldst stand clear of all charges.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 33:29-33

We have here the conclusion of this first part of Elihu's discourse, in which, 1. He briefly sums up what he had said, showing that God's great and gracious design, in all the dispensations of his…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

to justify thee Elihu could not say that he desired to justify Job in his plea against God; the words must refer to the cause between Job and himself. Elihu would be glad if Job could give such a…

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