10 Therefore I say, “Listen to me.
I too will declare what I know.”
11 Look, I waited for your conclusions;
I listened to your insights
as you sought for words.
12 I paid close attention to you.
Yet no one proved Job wrong;
not one of you refuted his arguments.
13 So do not claim, “We have found wisdom;
let God deal with him, not man.”
14 But Job has not directed his argument to me,
and I will not respond to him with your arguments.

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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