Job 32 · Verse 15

Job 32:15

They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
Job 32:15, King James Version

Job 32:15 in other translations

BSBJob’s friends are dismayed, with no more to say; words have escaped them.
WEB“They are amazed. They answer no more. They don’t have a word to say.
ASVThey are amazed, they answer no more: They have not a word to say.
YLT(They have broken down, They have not answered again, They removed from themselves words.
DARBYThey were amazed, they answered no more; words failed them.
BBEFear has overcome them, they have no more answers to give; they have come to an end of words.
WebsterThey were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

What does Job 32:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
15. Here Elihu turns from the friends to Job: and so passes from the second person to the third; a transition frequent in a rebuke (Job 18:3, 4). they left off--Words were taken from them.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 15 They were amazed - Mr. Good translates: "They (the speeches) are dissipated; they no longer produce effect; the words have flirted away from them." Your words, being without proper reference and point, are scattered into thin air: there is nothing but sound in them; they are quite destitute of sense. But I prefer the words as spoken of Job's friends. They took their several parts in the controversy as long as they could hope to maintain their ground: for a considerable time they had been able to bring nothing new; at last, weary of their own repetitions, they gave up the contest.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 32:15-22
If we are sure that the Spirit of God suggested what we are about to say, still we ought to refrain, till it comes to our turn to speak. God is the God of order, not of confusion. It is great refreshment to a good man, to speak for the glory of the Lord, and to edify others. And the more we consider the majesty of God, as our Maker, and the more we dread his wrath and justice, the less shall we sinfully fear or flatter men. Could we set the wrath Lord always before us, in his mercies and his terrors, we should not be moved from doing our duty in whatever we are called to do.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Job 32:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

חַ֭תּוּCha.tuthey are dismayedH2865
לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
עָ֣נוּ'A.nuthey have answeredH6030
ע֑וֹדodagainH5750
הֶעְתִּ֖יקוּhe'.Ti.kuthey have moved awayH6275
מֵהֶ֣םme.Hemfrom <the> them
מִלִּֽים\׃mi.LimwordsH4405

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 32:15

  • Matthew 22:34

    But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.

  • Job 29:22

    After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

  • Matthew 22:46

    And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.

  • Matthew 22:26

    Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.

  • Matthew 7:23

    And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

  • Job 6:24-25

    Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

  • Matthew 22:22

    When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
amazed.
6:24,25; 29:22; Mt 7:23; 22:22,26,34,46
left off speaking. Heb. removed speeches from themselves.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 32:14

    Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.

  • Job 32:15

    They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

  • Job 32:16

    When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)

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Job 32:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Espantáronse, no respondieron más: fuéronseles los razonamientos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ils ont été confondus, ils ne répondent plus; les paroles leur sont ôtées.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Sie sind bestürzt, sie antworten nicht mehr, die Worte sind ihnen ausgegangen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Extimuerunt, nec responderunt ultra, abstuleruntque a se eloquia.