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Verse Job 32:15. _THEY WERE AMAZED_] Mr. _Good_ translates: "They
(the _speeches_) are dissipated; they no longer produce effect; the
words have flirted away from them." Your words, being without pro...
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THEY WERE AMAZED - There also are the words of Elihu, and are designed
to express his astonishment that the three friends of Job did not
answer him. He says that they were completely silenced, and he...
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CHAPTER S 32--33:7
_ 1. Elihu introduced (Job 32:1)_
2. I waited, but now must speak (Job 32:6)
3. His address to Job (Job 33:1)
Job 32:1. As
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If the friends have nothing to say, that is no reason for Elihu's
silence. He is full of words, and must give them vent. The fear of God
will prevent his showing partiality....
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Turning from the three friends Elihu seems to speak in soliloquy and
present to his own mind the singular situation: the three friends are
discomfited before Job and reduced to silence; this should no...
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_they left off speaking_ lit. _words have removed_, or, _are gone from
them_(Genesis 12:8) they are reduced to silence....
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TEXT 32:11-22
11 BEHOLD, I WAITED FOR YOUR WORDS,
I listened for your reasonings,
Whilst ye searched out what to say.
12 Yea, I attended onto you,
And, behold, there was none that convinced Job,
O...
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32:15 amazed, (f-3) Or 'were afraid.'...
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THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU
It is the view of almost all scholars that the speeches of Elihu are a
later addition. The grounds for this view are the following. His
presence comes upon the reader with surpri...
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Elihu describes the discomfiture of the friends....
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 32
ELIHU PREPARES HIS SPEEC...
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In Job 2:13, the three friends were silent because Job’s words upset
them. But now they had argued with Job. And so nobody wanted to speak,
except Elihu. He had waited patiently during their long spee...
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THEY WERE AMAZED. — The force is given better by substituting the
present tense, “They are amazed, they answer no more: they have not
a word to say.”...
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חַ֭תּוּ לֹא ־עָ֣נוּ עֹ֑וד
הֶעְתִּ֖יקוּ מֵהֶ֣ם...
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XXV.
POST-EXILIC WISDOM
Job 32:1; Job 33:1; Job 34:1
A PERSONAGE hitherto unnamed in the course of the drama now assumes
the place of critic and judge between Job and his friends. Elihu, son
of Bara...
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ELIHU ENTERS
Job 32:1
The controversy between Job and his counselors is now at an end. They
have failed in making out their case; but before God Himself takes up
the argument there is another side of...
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The last voice in the earthly controversy is now heard. It is a new
voice, and opportunity never comes to Job to answer. Moreover, God in
the final movements takes no notice other than that of interru...
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_They. Eliu speaks thus contemptuously of the three friends, as if
they had been absent. In the former verse he spoke to them: now he
turns to Job. Hebrew, "they were amazed." (Haydock)_...
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(6) В¶ And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I
am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not
shew you mine opinion. (7) I said, Days should speak, and mult...
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Elihu's Speeches
I. INTRODUCTION
A. In our last study of the book of Job (Chapter s 11-14), - Job had
just replied to Zophar's speech.
1. Chapter 14 concludes the "first round" of speeches by Job's...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 32 THROUGH 37.
But these spiritual affections of Job did not prevent his turning this
consciousness of integrity into a robe of self-righteousness which hid
G...
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THEY WERE AMAZED,.... They were like persons thunderstruck, quite
surprised and astonished to hear a young man talk after this manner:
THEY ANSWERED NO MORE; as they had ceased to answer Job, they di...
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_They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking._
Ver. 15. _They were amazed_] As if they had seen Medusa's head, _Gr.
Myth. One of the three Gorgons whose head, with snakes for hair...
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_They were amazed_ Job's three friends stood mute, like persons
amazed, not knowing what to reply to his arguments, and wondering at
his bold and confident assertions concerning his integrity, and his...
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They were amazed, they answered no more; they left off speaking, words
had fled away from them, had deserted them. This sentence has the
force of an exclamation, caused by the surprise which Elihu fel...
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ELIHU GIVES THE REASON FOR HIS SPEAKING...
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Since his three friends have been silenced by Job's strong declaration
of self-righteousness, our attention is drawn to a young man who has
been a silent observer of this interesting drama. There appe...
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THEY LET OFF SPEAKING:
_ Heb._ they removed speeches from themselves...
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Seeing that the three friends had run out of words, Elihu felt it was
time to speak. "Elihu surveys the situation. Job's opponents have been
muted, but does that suggest that he should remain silent t...
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15-22 If we are sure that the Spirit of God suggested what we are
about to say, still we ought to refrain, till it comes to our turn to
speak. God is the God of order, not of confusion. It is great
r...
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THEY, i.e. Job's three friends, of whom he speaks some times, in the
second, and here in the third person, directing his speech to Job and
the auditors of this disputation. WERE AMAZED; they stood mut...
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Job 32:15 dismayed H2865 (H8804) answer H6030 (H8804) Words H4405
escape H6275 (H8689)
amazed -...
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CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse, stating his reasons for interfering.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, Elihu, friends.
CONCLUSION: One who is jealous of the honor of God cannot be grieved
when injury is plainly do...
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Job 32:2. _Elihu._ The Greek copies read Elihuz, the same as they
write Elijah. The critics refer us for his genealogy to Huz the son of
Nahor; for Ram is thought to be Abraham; but a similarity of na...
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JOB 32:1 Elihu: Suffering as a Discipline. A new speaker, Elihu, is
introduced (Job 32:1), followed by an uninterrupted record of his
speeches (Job 32:6). Th
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 32:6 Elihu’s opening speech repeats what the
introductory section has described (vv. Job 32:1). Elihu directs his
remarks primarily at the three friends....
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NOTES
Job 32:2. “_Elihu_” אֱלִיהוּא “my God is He;” or,
according to some: “My God is Jehovab.” Various opinions
concerning him, both as to his personality, speeches, and character.
He has been consid...
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EXPOSITION
A new personage is now introduced upon the scene, who speaks in a new
style and almost in a new language. No previous mention has been made
of him; no subsequent notice is taken of his argu...
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So sitting nearby was a young man whose name was Elihu.
So these three men [Bildad, Zophar, and Eliphaz] cease to answer Job,
because he was righteous in his own eyes. Then was kindled the wrath
of E...
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Job 29:22; Job 6:24; Job 6:25; Matthew 22:22; Matthew 22:26;...
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HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB
Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3