Job 32:16

16 J'ai attendu: puisqu'ils ne parlent plus, qu'ils se tiennent là sans répondre,

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 Il n'a pas dirigé ses discours contre moi, et je ne lui répondrai pas à votre manière.

15 Ils sont consternés! Ils ne répondent plus! On leur a ôté l'usage de la parole!

16 J'ai attendu: puisqu'ils ne parlent plus, qu'ils se tiennent là sans répondre,

17 Je répondrai, moi aussi, pour ma part; je dirai mon avis, moi aussi;

18 Car je suis rempli de discours; l'esprit qui est en mon sein me presse.