Job 32:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 32

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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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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 18:13
He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
Job 32:11-12
Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say. …

Topics

Age, Old Aged Infirmity Longevity Old Age Reverence Veneration

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. 4)

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.