Job 32:12
10 Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me; I too will declare what I know.’
11 Indeed, I waited while you spoke; I listened to your reasoning; as you searched for words,
I paid you full attention. But no one proved Job wrong; not one of you rebutted his arguments.
13 So do not claim, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not man, refute him.’
14 But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I paid you full attention. But no one proved Job wrong; not one of you rebutted his arguments.
- KJV
- Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:
- WEB
- Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.
- ASV
- Yea, I attended unto you, And, behold, there was none that convinced Job, Or that answered his words, among you.
- DARBY
- Yea, I gave you mine attention, and behold, there was none of you that confuted Job, that answered his words;
- BLB
- And to you⁺ I attended, and behold, there was no one proving Job wrong [or] answering his words among you⁺,
- ÅB
- Jeg gav akt på dere; men det var ingen av dere som gjendrev Job, ingen som svarte på hans ord.
- OTB
- Jeg ga dere min fulle oppmerksomhet.
Likevel har ingen av dere bevist at Job tar feil;
ingen har svart på hans argumenter. - B1930
- Jeg gav akt på eder; men det var ingen av eder som gjendrev Job, ingen som svarte på hans ord.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 32:3
and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
Read in context1 Timothy 1:7
They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert.
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