he makes an apology for engaging in this controversy, by reason of his youth, and they being advanced in years
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Job 32:1
Job 32:1
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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Job 32 — OverviewJob 32 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe stage is clear, for Job and his three friends have sat down, and
neither he nor they have any thing more to say; it is therefore very
seasonable for a moderator to interpose, and Elihu is the man. In this…Job 32 — OverviewJob 32 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJob 32:1, Elihu is angry with Job and his three friends; Job 32:6, Because wisdom comes not from age, he excuses the boldness of his youth; Job 32:11, He reproves them for not satisfying Job; Job 32:16, His zeal to…Job 32 — OverviewJob 32 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleJob's three friends being silenced, and having no more to say in reply to him, Elihu, of whose descent some account is given, a bystander and hearer of the whole dispute between them, rises up as a moderator, and…Job 32:1-5Job 32:1-5 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleUsually 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 moderator. Divers…Job 32:1Job 32:1 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgeto answer: Heb. from answering
righteous: Job 6:29, Job 10:2, Job 10:7, Job 13:15, Job 23:7, Job 27:4-6, Job 29:11-17, Job 31:1-40, Job 33:9