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Job 32 Elihu Contradicts Job’s Friends

Job 32:1-22 Elihu Contradicts Job’s Friends

Job 32:1-3
1 So these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. 2 Then the wrath of Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was aroused against Job; his wrath was aroused because he justified himself rather than God. 3 Also against his three friends his wrath was aroused, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Job 32:4-5
4 Now because they were years older than he, Elihu had waited to speak to Job. 5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was aroused.

Job 32:6-9
6 So Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, answered and said:

“I am young in years, and you are very old;
Therefore I was afraid,
And dared not declare my opinion to you.
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I said, ‘Age should speak,
And multitude of years should teach wisdom.’
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But there is a spirit in man,
And the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding.
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Great men are not always wise,
Nor do the aged always understand justice.

Job 32:10-14
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“Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me,
I also will declare my opinion.’
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Indeed I waited for your words,
I listened to your reasonings, while you searched out what to say.
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I paid close attention to you;
And surely not one of you convinced Job,
Or answered his words—
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Lest you say,
‘We have found wisdom’;
God will vanquish him, not man.
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Now he has not [d]directed his words against me;
So I will not answer him with your words.