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.''
