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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 32 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/32.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" 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33">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Elihu Is Upset with Job's Friends</h3><p class="par"><span class="v18_32_1"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.1" class="v18_32_1">1</span>Finally, these three men stopped arguing with Job, because he refused to admit he was guilty.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v18_32_2"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.2" class="v18_32_2">2</span>Elihu from Buz<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.32.2!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> was there, and he had become upset with Job for blaming God instead of himself. </span><span class="v18_32_3"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.3" class="v18_32_3">3</span>He was also angry with Job's three friends for not being able to prove that Job was wrong. </span><span class="v18_32_4"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.4" class="v18_32_4">4</span>Elihu was younger than these three, and he let them speak first. </span><span class="v18_32_5"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.5" class="v18_32_5">5</span>But he became irritated when they could not answer Job, </span><span class="v18_32_6"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.6" class="v18_32_6">6</span>and he said to them:</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_6">I am much younger than you,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_6">so I have shown respect</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_32_6">by keeping silent.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_7"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.7" class="v18_32_7">7</span>I once believed age</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_32_7">was the source of wisdom;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_8"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.8" class="v18_32_8">8</span>now I truly realize</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_32_8">wisdom comes from God.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_9"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.9" class="v18_32_9">9</span>Age is no guarantee of wisdom</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_32_9">and understanding.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_10"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.10" class="v18_32_10">10</span>That's why I ask you</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_32_10">to listen to me.</span></p><h3 class="s1">I Eagerly Listened</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_10">* </span><span class="v18_32_11"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.11" class="v18_32_11">11</span>I eagerly listened</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_32_11">to each of your arguments,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_12"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.12" class="v18_32_12">12</span>but not one of you proved</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_32_12">Job to be wrong.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_13"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.13" class="v18_32_13">13</span>You shouldn't say,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_13">“We know what's right!</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_32_13">Let God punish him.”</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_14"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.14" class="v18_32_14">14</span>Job hasn't spoken against me,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_14">and so I won't answer him</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_32_14">with your arguments.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_15"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.15" class="v18_32_15">15</span>All of you are shocked;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_32_15">you don't know what to say.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_16"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.16" class="v18_32_16">16</span>But am I to remain silent,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_16">just because you</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_32_16">have stopped speaking?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_17"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.17" class="v18_32_17">17</span>No! I will give my opinion,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_18"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.18" class="v18_32_18">18</span>because I have so much to say,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_32_18">that I can't keep quiet.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_19"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.19" class="v18_32_19">19</span>I am like a swollen wineskin,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_19">and I will burst<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.32.19!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_32_20"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.20" class="v18_32_20">20</span>if I don't speak.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_20">* </span><span class="v18_32_21"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.21" class="v18_32_21">21</span>I don't know how to be unfair</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_32_21">or to flatter anyone—</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_32_22"><span class="reftext" id="Job.32.22" class="v18_32_22">22</span>if I did, my Creator</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_32_22">would quickly destroy me!</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">32.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Elihu from Buz: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “Elihu son of Barachel from Buz of the family of Ram.” Buz may have been somewhere in the territory of Edom; in Jeremiah 25.23 it is mentioned along with Dedan and Tema (see 6.19).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">32.19 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">swollen wineskin … burst: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">While the juice from grapes was becoming wine, it would swell and stretch the skins in which it had been stored; sometimes the swelling would burst the wineskins.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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