Job 32:15
New International Version
“They are dismayed and have no more to say; words have failed them.

New Living Translation
You sit there baffled, with nothing more to say.

English Standard Version
“They are dismayed; they answer no more; they have not a word to say.

Berean Standard Bible
Job’s friends are dismayed, with no more to say; words have escaped them.

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

New King James Version
“They are dismayed and answer no more; Words escape them.

New American Standard Bible
“They are dismayed, they no longer answer; Words have failed them.

NASB 1995
“They are dismayed, they no longer answer; Words have failed them.

NASB 1977
“They are dismayed, they answer no more; Words have failed them.

Legacy Standard Bible
“They are dismayed; they no longer answer; Words have moved away from them.

Amplified Bible
“They (Job’s friends) are dismayed and embarrassed, they no longer answer; The words have moved away and failed them,” [says Elihu].

Christian Standard Bible
Job’s friends are dismayed and can no longer answer; words have left them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Job’s friends are dismayed and can no longer answer; words have left them.

American Standard Version
They are amazed, they answer no more: They have not a word to say.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They stopped and they did not answer him; they abstained from words and they kept silent

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They were afraid, they answered no longer; they gave up their speaking.

Contemporary English Version
All of you are shocked; you don't know what to say.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They were afraid, and answered no more, and they left off speaking.

English Revised Version
They are amazed, they answer no more: they have not a word to say.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Job's friends have been overwhelmed and don't have any more answers. They don't have another word to say.

Good News Translation
Words have failed them, Job; they have no answer for you.

International Standard Version
"Job's friends won't reason with him anymore; discouraged, words escape them.

JPS Tanakh 1917
They are amazed, they answer no more; Words are departed from them.

Literal Standard Version
(They have broken down, | They have not answered again, | They removed words from themselves.

Majority Standard Bible
Job’s friends are dismayed, with no more to say; words have escaped them.

New American Bible
They are dismayed, they make no more reply; words fail them.

NET Bible
"They are dismayed and cannot answer any more; they have nothing left to say.

New Revised Standard Version
“They are dismayed, they answer no more; they have not a word to say.

New Heart English Bible
"They are amazed. They answer no more. They do not have a word to say.

Webster's Bible Translation
They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

World English Bible
“They are amazed. They answer no more. They don’t have a word to say.

Young's Literal Translation
(They have broken down, They have not answered again, They removed from themselves words.

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Context
Elihu Rebukes Job's Three Friends
14But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments. 15Job’s friends are dismayed, with no more to say; words have escaped them. 16Must I wait, now that they are silent, now that they stand and no longer reply?…

Cross References
Job 32:14
But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.

Job 32:16
Must I wait, now that they are silent, now that they stand and no longer reply?


Treasury of Scripture

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

amazed

Job 6:24,25
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred…

Job 29:22
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

Matthew 7:23
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

left off speaking.

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Job 32
1. Elihu is angry with Job and his three friends
6. Because wisdom comes not from age, he excuses the boldness of his youth
11. He reproves them for not satisfying Job
16. His zeal to speak














(15) They were amazed.--The force is given better by substituting the present tense, "They are amazed, they answer no more: they have not a word to say."

Verse 15.- They were amazed, they answered no more. A change from the second to the third person, possibly as seeming less disrespectful. Or perhaps Elihu turns from the three friends at this point, as Professor Lee supposes, and addr

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Job’s friends are dismayed
חַ֭תּוּ (ḥat·tū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2865: To prostrate, to break down, either, by violence, by confusion and fear

and have no
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

more
ע֑וֹד (‘ō·wḏ)
Adverb
Strong's 5750: Iteration, continuance, again, repeatedly, still, more

to say;
עָ֣נוּ (‘ā·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6030: To answer, respond

words
מִלִּֽים׃ (mil·lîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 4405: A word, a discourse, a topic

have escaped
הֶעְתִּ֖יקוּ (he‘·tî·qū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6275: To remove, to grow old, to transcribe

them.
מֵהֶ֣ם (mê·hem)
Preposition-m | Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1992: They


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