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Elihu Rebukes Job’s Friends

Job 32:1

In 11 translations

BSB
So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
KJV
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.to…: Heb. from answering
WEB
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
ASV
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
LSV
And these three men cease from answering Job, for he [is] righteous in his own eyes,
YLT
And these three men cease from answering Job, for he [is] righteous in his own eyes,
DBY
And these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
DRC
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just to himself.
GNV
So these three men ceased to answere Iob, because he esteemed himselfe iust.
JPS
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
LXXE
And his three friends also ceased any longer to answer Job: for Job was righteous before them.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וַֽיִּשְׁבְּת֡וּ שְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת הָאֲנָשִׁ֣ים הָ֭אֵלֶּה מֵעֲנ֣וֹת אֶת־אִיּ֑וֹב כִּ֤י ה֖וּא צַדִּ֣יק בְּעֵינָֽיו׃
LXX-Br
Ἡσύχασαν δὲ καὶ οἱ τρεῖς φίλοι αὐτοῦ ἔτι ἀντειπεῖν Ἰὼβ, ἦν γὰρ Ἰὼβ δίκαιος ἐναντίον αὐτῶν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
  • Job 33:9‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
  • Job 27:4–6my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit. I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die. I will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I…
  • Job 10:2I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
  • Job 13:15Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
  • Job 6:29Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
  • Job 31:1–40“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin? For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high? Does not disaster come to the unjust and…
  • Job 29:11–17For those who heard me called me blessed, and those who saw me commended me, because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper. The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing…
  • Job 23:7Then an upright man could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

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