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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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10 Therefore, I say: “Listen to me;
    I’ll state my view, even I.”
11 Look, I waited while you spoke,
    listened while you reasoned,
    while you searched for words.
12 I was attentive to you,
    but you offered no rebuke to Job,
    no answer from you for his words.
13 Be careful you don’t say, “We’ve found wisdom;
    God, not a person, will defeat him.”

14 Now Job[a] hasn’t addressed me,
    and I won’t quote you to him.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 32:14 Or he

10 “Therefore I say: Listen to me;(A)
    I too will tell you what I know.(B)
11 I waited while you spoke,
    I listened to your reasoning;
while you were searching for words,
12     I gave you my full attention.
But not one of you has proved Job wrong;
    none of you has answered his arguments.(C)
13 Do not say, ‘We have found wisdom;(D)
    let God, not a man, refute(E) him.’
14 But Job has not marshaled his words against me,(F)
    and I will not answer him with your arguments.

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