Job 32:15

15 “They are dismayed and have no more to say; words have failed them.

Job 32:15 in Other Translations

15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

15 "They are dismayed; they answer no more; they have not a word to say.

15 You sit there baffled, with nothing more to say.

15 "Do you three have nothing else to say? Of course you don't! You're total frauds!

15 They are amazed, they answer no more: They have not a word to say.

15 "Job's friends have been overwhelmed and don't have any more answers. They don't have another word to say.

15 Job's friends are dismayed and can no longer answer; words have left them.

15 "Job, those men are afraid. They don't have anything else to say. They've run out of words.

Job 32:15 Meaning and Commentary

Job 32:15

They were amazed
They were like persons thunderstruck, quite surprised and astonished to hear a young man talk after this manner:

they answered no more;
as they had ceased to answer Job, they did not undertake to answer Elihu, who had plainly told them their arguments were not convincing, their answers were no answers, and that they had done a wrong thing in condemning Job without proof; and that which they thought their greatest wisdom, and strongest argument, had no wisdom nor strength in it; namely, which was taken from his sore afflictions by the hand of God:

they left off speaking;
or words departed from them, as Jarchi; their speech left them, they seemed deprived of it: Mr. Broughton renders the whole,

``they shrink away, do speak no more, speeches be departed from them.''

Job 32:15 In-Context

13 Do not say, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not a man, refute him.’

14 But Job has not marshaled his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.

15 “They are dismayed and have no more to say; words have failed them.

16 Must I wait, now that they are silent, now that they stand there with no reply?

17 I too will have my say; I too will tell what I know.

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