Job 32:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַֽיִּשְׁבְּת֡וּ שְׁלֹ֤שֶׁת הָאֲנָשִׁ֣ים הָ֭אֵלֶּה מֵעֲנ֣וֹת אֶת־אִיּ֑וֹב כִּ֤י ה֖וּא צַדִּ֣יק בְּעֵינָֽיו׃ פ

Transliteration

And wayyišbətû three hāʾănāšîm hāʾēlleh from mēʿănôt ʾet-ʾiyyôb because hûʾ ṣaddîq in bəʿênāyw

Grammar Details

• *wayyišbətû*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - and they ceased/stopped
• *hāʾănāšîm*: definite article + noun masculine plural - the men
• *hāʾēlleh*: definite article + demonstrative adjective plural - these
• *mēʿănôt*: preposition min + qal infinitive construct - from answering
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *ʾiyyôb*: proper noun - Job
• *hûʾ*: 3rd person masculine singular pronoun - he
• *ṣaddîq*: adjective masculine singular - righteous
• *bəʿênāyw*: preposition bet + noun feminine dual construct + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - in his eyes

Word Meanings

• *wayyišbətû*: they ceased/stopped/desisted
• *mēʿănôt*: from answering/replying to
• *ṣaddîq*: righteous/just/innocent

Referenced Verses

• Job 10:7 : 7 Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?
• Job 33:9 : 9 I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:
• Job 6:29 : 29 Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.
• Job 10:2 : 2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me.
• Job 13:15 : 15 Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.
• Job 23:7 : 7 There the upright might reason with him; So should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
• Job 27:4-6 : 4 Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit. 5 Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me. 6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.
• Job 29:11-17 : 11 For when the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; And when the eye saw [me], it gave witness unto me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame. 16 I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out. 17 And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.
• Job 31:1-9 : 1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin? 2 For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high? 3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity? 4 Doth not he see my ways, And number all my steps? 5 If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit 6 (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity); 7 If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands: 8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out. 9 If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door; 10 Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her. 11 For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges: 12 For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase. 13 If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me; 14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? 15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? 16 If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail, 17 Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof 18 (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's womb); 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering; 20 If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep; 21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate: 22 Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone. 23 For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing. 24 If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, [Thou art] my confidence; 25 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much; 26 If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness, 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand: 28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above. 29 If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him; 30 (Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse); 31 If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat? 32 (The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller); 33 If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom, 34 Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door— 35 Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); And [that I had] the indictment which mine adversary hath written! 36 Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it unto me as a crown: 37 I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him. 38 If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together; 39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life: 40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.