Job 32:6

New English Translation

⁶So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite spoke up:^[a]

“I am young,^[b] but you are elderly;
that is why I was fearful,^[c]
and afraid to explain^[d] to you what I know.

Job 32:6 tn Heb “answered and said.”
Job 32:6 tn The text has “small in days.”
Job 32:6 tn The verb זָחַלְתִּי (zakhalti) is found only here in the OT, but it is found in a ninth century Aramaic inscription as well as in Biblical Aramaic. It has the meaning “to be timid” (see H. H. Rowley, Job [NCBC], 208).
Job 32:6 tn The Piel infinitive with the preposition (מֵחַוֹּת, mekhavvot) means “from explaining.” The phrase is the complement: “explain” what Elihu feared.

Job 32:7

New English Translation

⁷I said to myself, ‘Age^[a] should speak,^[b]
and length of years^[c] should make wisdom known.’

New English Translation (NET)