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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’m saying, ‘Listen to me!’
    Then I’ll declare what I know.

11 “Look! I have waited to hear your speech,
    so I listened to your insights
        while you searched for the right words to say.[a]
12 Indeed, I paid close attention to you all,
    but none of you were able to refute[b] Job
        or answer his arguments convincingly.

13 “So that you cannot claim, ‘We have found wisdom!’
    let God do the rebuking, not man;
14 let him not direct a rebuke toward me.
    I won’t be responding to him with your arguments.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 32:11 The Heb. lacks to say
  2. Job 32:12 Or rebuke