10 So I [a]say, ‘Listen to me,
I too will tell [b]what I think.’

11 “Behold, I waited for your words,
I listened to your skillful speech,
While you [c]pondered what to say.
12 I also paid close attention to you;
But [d]indeed, there was no one who refuted Job,
Not one of you who answered his words.
13 So do not say,
(A)We have found wisdom:
God will [e]defeat him, not man.’
14 But he has not presented his words against me,
Nor will I reply to him with your [f]arguments.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 32:10 Or said
  2. Job 32:10 Lit my knowledge
  3. Job 32:11 Lit searched out words
  4. Job 32:12 Lit Behold
  5. Job 32:13 Lit scatter
  6. Job 32:14 Lit words

10 So listen to me,
    and let me tell you what I think.

11 “I have waited all this time,
    listening very carefully to your arguments,
    listening to you grope for words.
12 I have listened,
    but not one of you has refuted Job
    or answered his arguments.
13 And don’t tell me, ‘He is too wise for us.
    Only God can convince him.’
14 If Job had been arguing with me,
    I would not answer with your kind of logic!

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