Job 32:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

Job 32:2 —

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Genesis 22:21
Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
Job 27:5
God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
Job 35:2
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
Job 40:8
Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
Job 27:2
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

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Barachel Self-Righteousness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

Usually 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 of Job’s friends were present, that came to visit him and to receive instruction. Now here we have, I. The reason why his three friends were now silent. They ceased to answer him, and let him…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

Job 32:1-37:24. Speech of Elihu. 1-6. Prose (poetry begins with “I am young”). because, &c.--and because they could not prove to him that he was unrighteous.