Job 32:15

15 Zij zijn ontzet, zij antwoorden niet meer; zij hebben de woorden van zich verzet.

Job 32:15 Meaning and Commentary

Job 32:15

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.''

Job 32:15 In-Context

13 Opdat gij niet zegt: Wij hebben de wijsheid gevonden; God heeft hem nedergestoten, geen mens.

14 Nu heeft hij tegen mij geen woorden gericht, en met ulieder woorden zal ik hem niet beantwoorden.

15 Zij zijn ontzet, zij antwoorden niet meer; zij hebben de woorden van zich verzet.

16 Ik heb dan gewacht, maar zij spreken niet; want zij staan stil; zij antwoorden niet meer.

17 Ik zal mijn deel ook antwoorden, ik zal mijn gevoelen ook vertonen.