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Job 32:3 KJV
Job · chapter 32 · verse 3
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.Job 32:3 · King James Version
Job 32:3 in context
1So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
2Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
3Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
4Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.
5When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- condemnedrâshaʻto be wrongH7561 →
- friendsrêaʻan associateH7453 →
- kindledchârâhto glow or grow warmH2734 →
- answermaʻăneha replyH4617 →
- threeshâlôwshthreeH7969 →
- wrathʼaphproperly, the nose or nostrilH639 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5