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Won’t you ever stop blowing hot air?
    What makes you keep on talking?

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Will your long-winded speeches never end?(A)
    What ails you that you keep on arguing?(B)

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26 Do you think your words are convincing
    when you disregard my cry of desperation?

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26 Do you mean to correct what I say,
    and treat my desperate words as wind?(A)

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“A wise man wouldn’t answer with such empty talk!
    You are nothing but a windbag.

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“Would a wise person answer with empty notions
    or fill their belly with the hot east wind?(A)

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Teach the truth so that your teaching can’t be criticized. Then those who oppose us will be ashamed and have nothing bad to say about us.

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and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.(A)

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11 They must be silenced, because they are turning whole families away from the truth by their false teaching. And they do it only for money.

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11 They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households(A) by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain.

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46 No one could answer him. And after that, no one dared to ask him any more questions.

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46 No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.(A)

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He was also angry with Job’s three friends, for they made God[a] appear to be wrong by their inability to answer Job’s arguments. Elihu had waited for the others to speak to Job because they were older than he. But when he saw that they had no further reply, he spoke out angrily. Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said,

“I am young and you are old,
    so I held back from telling you what I think.

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Footnotes

  1. 32:3 As in ancient Hebrew scribal tradition; the Masoretic Text reads Job.

He was also angry with the three friends,(A) because they had found no way to refute Job,(B) and yet had condemned him.[a](C) Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job because they were older than he.(D) But when he saw that the three men had nothing more to say, his anger was aroused.

So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said:

“I am young in years,
    and you are old;(E)
that is why I was fearful,
    not daring to tell you what I know.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 32:3 Masoretic Text; an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition Job, and so had condemned God

I’ve had to endure your insults,
    but now my spirit prompts me to reply.

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I hear a rebuke(A) that dishonors me,
    and my understanding inspires me to reply.

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“How long will you go on like this?
    You sound like a blustering wind.

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“How long will you say such things?(A)
    Your words are a blustering wind.(B)

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