Job 32:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.

Job 32:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 15:10
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
1 Timothy 5:1
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Titus 2:6
Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
1 Samuel 17:28-30
And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle. …

Topics

Age, Old Aged Barachel Infirmity Longevity Old Age Reverence Veneration

Commentary

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

(vv. 6-14)

Elihu here appears to have been, I. A man of great modesty and humility. Though a young man, and a man of abilities, yet not pert, and confident, and assuming: his face shone, and, like Moses, he did not know it, which made it shine so much the brighter. Let it be observed by all, especially by young people, as worthy their imitation, 1. What a diffidence he had of himself and of his own judgment…

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

(vv. 6)

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.