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<p id="Chapter32" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 32
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<p id="Job32_1"><a onclick="return mV('Job',32,'1-');">Job 32:1-37:24</a>. SPEECH OF ELIHU.
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<p><b>1-6.</b> Prose (poetry begins with "I am young").
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<br><br><b>because,</b> etc.—and because they could not prove to him that he was unrighteous.
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<p id="Job32_2"><b>2. Elihu</b>—meaning "God is Jehovah." In his name and character as messenger between God and Job, he foreshadows Jesus Christ (<a onclick="return mV('Job',33,'23-26');">Job 33:23-26</a>).
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<br><br><b>Barachel</b>—meaning "God blesses." Both names indicate the piety of the family and their separation from idolaters.
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<br><br><b>Buzite</b>—Buz was son of Nahor, brother of Abraham. Hence was named a region in Arabia-Deserta (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',25,23);">Jer 25:23</a>).
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<br><br><b>Ram</b>—Aram, nephew of Buz. Job was probably of an older generation than Elihu. However, the identity of names does not necessarily prove the identity of persons. The particularity with which Elihu's descent is given, as contrasted with the others, led LIGHTFOOT to infer Elihu was the author of the book. But the reason for particularity was, probably, that Elihu was <i>less known</i> than the three called "friends" of Job; and that it was right for the poet to mark especially him who was mainly to solve the problem of the book.
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<br><br><b>rather than God</b>—that is, was more eager <i>to vindicate himself than God.</i> In <a onclick="return mV('Job',4,17);">Job 4:17</a>, Job denies <i>that man can be more just than God.</i> UMBREIT translates, "Before (in the presence of) God."
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<p id="Job32_3"><b>3.</b> Though silenced in argument, they held their opinion still.
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<p id="Job32_4"><b>4. had spoken</b>—<i>Hebrew,</i> "in words," referring rather to <i>his own</i> "words" of reply, which he had long ago ready, but kept back in deference to the seniority of the friends <i>who spoke.</i>
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<p id="Job32_6"><b>6. was afraid</b>—The root meaning in <i>Hebrew</i> is "to crawl" (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',32,24);">Deu 32:24</a>).
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<p id="Job32_7"><b>7. Days</b>—that is, the aged (<a onclick="return mV('Job',15,10);">Job 15:10</a>).
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<p id="Job32_8"><b>8.</b> Elihu claims inspiration, as a divinely commissioned messenger to Job (<a onclick="return mV('Job',33,6, 23);">Job 33:6, 23</a>); and that claim is not contradicted in <a onclick="return mV('Job',42,4,5);">Job 42:4-5</a>. Translate: "But the spirit (which God puts) in man, and the inspiration...is that which giveth," etc.; it is not mere "years" which give understanding (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',2,6);">Pro 2:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jhn',20,22);">Jhn 20:22</a>).
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<p id="Job32_9"><b>9. Great</b>—rather, "old" (<a onclick="return mV('Job',32,6);">Job 32:6</a>). So <i>Hebrew,</i> in <a onclick="return mV('Gen',25,23);">Gen 25:23</a>. "Greater, less" for <i>the older, the younger.</i>
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<br><br><b>judgment</b>—what is right.
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<p id="Job32_10"><b>10.</b> Rather, "I say."
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<br><br><b>opinion</b>—rather, "knowledge."
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<p id="Job32_11"><b>11.</b> Therefore Elihu was present from the first.
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<br><br><b>reasons</b>—literally, "understandings," that is, the meaning intended by words.
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<br><br><b>whilst</b>—I waited <i>until</i> you should discover a suitable reply to Job.
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<p id="Job32_12"></a>
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<p id="Job32_13"><b>13.</b> This has been so ordered, "lest you should" pride yourselves on having overcome him by your "wisdom" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',9,23);">Jer 9:23</a>, the great aim of the Book of Job); and that you may see, "God alone can thrust him down," that is, confute him, "not man." So Elihu grounds his confutation, not on the maxims of sages, as the friends did, but on his special commission from God (<a onclick="return mV('Job',32,8);">Job 32:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Job',33,4,6);">33:4, 6</a>).
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<p id="Job32_14"><b>14.</b> I am altogether unprejudiced. For it is not I, whom he addressed. "Your speeches" have been influenced by irritation.
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<p id="Job32_15"><b>15.</b> Here Elihu turns from the friends to Job: and so passes from the second person to the third; a transition frequent in a rebuke (<a onclick="return mV('Job',18,3,4);">Job 18:3-4</a>).
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<br><br><b>they left off</b>—Words were taken from them.
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<p id="Job32_17"><b>17. my part</b>—for my part.
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<br><br><b>opinion</b>—knowledge.
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<p id="Job32_18"><b>18.</b> "I am full of words," whereas the friends have not a word more to say.
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<br><br><b>the spirit</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Job',32,8);">Job 32:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Job',33,4);">33:4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',20,9);">Jer 20:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Act',18,5);">Act 18:5</a>).
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<p id="Job32_19"><b>19. belly</b>—bosom: from which the words of Orientalists in speaking seem to come more than with us; they speak gutturally. "Like (new) wine (in fermentation) without a vent," to work itself off. <i>New</i> wine is kept in new goatskin bottles. This fittingly applies to the <i>young</i> Elihu, as contrasted with the <i>old</i> friends (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',9,7);">Mat 9:7</a>).
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<p id="Job32_20"><b>20. refreshed</b>—literally, "that there may be air to me" (<a onclick="return mV('1Sa',16,23);">1Sa 16:23</a>).
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<p id="Job32_21"><b>21.</b> "May I never accept," etc. Elihu alludes to Job's words (<a onclick="return mV('Job',13,8,10);">Job 13:8, 10</a>), wherein he complains that the friends plead for God partially, "accepting His person." Elihu says he will not do so, but will act impartially between God and Job. "And I will not give flattery," etc. (<a onclick="return mV('Pro',24,23);">Pro 24:23</a>).
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<p id="Job32_22"><b>22. take me away</b>—as a punishment (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',102,24);">Psa 102:24</a>).
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