Job 32:16

16 Now they are standing there with no answers for Job. Now that they are quiet, must I wait to speak?

Job 32:16 Meaning and Commentary

Job 32:16

When one had waited
To observe whether they would make any reply to what he had said, or any objection to his engaging in the controversy:

for they spake not;
were as mute as fishes:

but stood still;
like statues, had no power to move, neither to sit down nor to depart, but were as if all life, sense, and motion, were gone from them:

[and] answered no more;
or not at all; for it does not appear that they had given him any answer before, as well as not now.

Job 32:16 In-Context

14 Job has not spoken his words against me, so I will not use your arguments to answer Job.

15 "These three friends are defeated and have no more to say; words have failed them.

16 Now they are standing there with no answers for Job. Now that they are quiet, must I wait to speak?

17 No, I too will speak and tell what I know.

18 I am full of words, and the spirit in me causes me to speak.