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4Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.

Job 32:4

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Matthew Henry

(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 hi...

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