Job 32:16

16 Do I have to keep on waiting, now that they are silent? They are just standing there with nothing to say.

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 hasn't directed his words against me. I won't answer him with your arguments.

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

16 Do I have to keep on waiting, now that they are silent? They are just standing there with nothing to say.

17 I too have something to say. I too will tell what I know.

18 I'm full of words. My spirit inside me forces me to speak.