Job 32:1 (BSB)
So these three men stopped answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Commentary on Job 32:1
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 32:1-5: 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.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 32:1: So these three men ceased to answer Job,.... His three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, who came to visit and comfort him under his afflictions; but unawares were led into a controversy with him, occasioned by some rash and impatient expressions of his; which controversy had been carried on between them a considerable time, but now dropped; they grew...
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 32:1: Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended. (f) That is, the talk which he had with his three friends.
- Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on Job 32:1: These three men ceased to answer Job - They supposed that it was of no use to attempt to reason any longer with a man who justified himself before God. The truth is, they failed to convince Job of any point, because they argued from false principles; and, as we have seen, Job had the continual advantage of them.