Job 32:12

New American Standard Bible (1995)

"I even paid close attention to you; Indeed, there was no one who refuted Job, Not one of you who answered his words.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I paid close attention to you.Yet no one proved Job wrong;not one of you refuted his arguments.

Hebrew Names Version
Yes, I gave you my full attention, But there was no one who convinced Iyov, Or who answered his words, among you.

King James Version
Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:

English Standard Version
I gave you my attention, and, behold, there was none among you who refuted Job or who answered his words.

New Century Version
I paid close attention to you. But not one of you has proved Job wrong; none of you has answered his arguments.

New English Translation
Now I was paying you close attention, yet there was no one proving Job wrong, not one of you was answering his statements!

Amplified Bible
"I even paid close attention to [what] you [said], Indeed, not one of you convinced Job [nor could you refute him], Not one of you supplied [satisfactory] answers to his words.

New American Standard Bible
"I also paid close attention to you; But indeed, there was no one who refuted Job, Not one of you who answered his words.

World English Bible
Yes, I gave you my full attention, But there was no one who convinced Job, Or who answered his words, among you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Yea, when I had considered you, lo, there was none of you that reproued Iob, nor answered his wordes:

Legacy Standard Bible
I even carefully considered you;And behold, there was no one who reproved Job,Not one of you who answered his words.

Berean Standard Bible
I paid you full attention. But no one proved Job wrong; not one of you rebutted his arguments.

Contemporary English Version
but not one of you proved Job to be wrong.

Complete Jewish Bible
I paid attention to you, but none of you convicted Iyov or refuted his arguments.

Darby Translation
Yea, I gave you mine attention, and behold, there was none of you that confuted Job, that answered his words;

Easy-to-Read Version
I listened carefully to what you said. Not one of you proved Job wrong. Not one of you answered his arguments.

George Lamsa Translation
Yea, I understood your testimony, and, behold, there was none of you that could reprove Job, or that could answer his words,

Good News Translation
I paid close attention and heard you fail; you have not disproved what Job has said.

Lexham English Bible
And I directed my attention to you; and, look, there is no one for Job who refuted, answering his words among you.

Literal Translation
yea, I paid attention to you, and behold, not one of you proved Job wrong, nor answered his sayings;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
yee when I had diligently pondred what ye sayde, I founde not one of you that made eny good argument agaynst Iob, or that directly coude make answere vnto his wordes:

American Standard Version
Yea, I attended unto you, And, behold, there was none that convinced Job, Or that answered his words, among you.

Bible in Basic English
I was taking note; and truly not one of you was able to make clear Job's error, or to give an answer to his words.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none that convinced Job, or that answered his words, among you.

King James Version (1611)
Yea, I attended vnto you: and beholde, there was none of you that conuinced Iob, or that answered his words:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yea when I had diligently pondred what ye sayde, I found not one of you that made any good argument against Iob, that directly could make aunswere vnto his wordes,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and I shall understand as far as you; and, behold, there was no one of you that answered Job his words in argument,

English Revised Version
Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none that convinced Job, or that answered his words, among you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And as long as Y gesside you to seie ony thing, Y bihelde; but as Y se, `noon is of you, that may repreue Joob, and answere to hise wordis;

Update Bible Version
Yes, I attended to you, And, look, there was none that convinced Job, Or that answered his words, among you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Yes, I attended to you, and behold, [there was] none of you that convinced Job, [or] that answered his words:

New King James Version
I paid close attention to you; And surely not one of you convinced Job, Or answered his words--

New Living Translation
I have listened, but not one of you has refuted Job or answered his arguments.

New Life Bible
I was careful to listen to you. There was no one who could prove that Job was wrong. None of you could answer his words.

New Revised Standard
I gave you my attention, but there was in fact no one that confuted Job, no one among you that answered his words.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea, unto you, gave I diligent heed, - But lo! there was, for Job, nothing to convince, nor could you of you answer his speeches.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And as long as I thought you said some thing, I considered: but, as I see, there is none of you that can convince Job, and answer his words.

Revised Standard Version
I gave you my attention, and, behold, there was none that confuted Job, or that answered his words, among you.

Young's Literal Translation
And unto you I attend, And lo, there is no reasoner for Job, [Or] answerer of his sayings among you.

Contextual Overview

⁶ So Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite spoke out and said, "I am young in years and you are old; Therefore I was shy and afraid to tell you what I think. ⁷ "I thought age should speak, And increased years should teach wisdom. ⁸ "But it is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding. ⁹ "The abundant in years may not be wise, Nor may elders understand justice. ¹⁰ "So I say, 'Listen to me, I too will tell what I think.' ¹¹ "Behold, I waited for your words, I listened to your reasonings, While you pondered what to say. ¹² "I even paid close attention to you; Indeed, there was no one who refuted Job, Not one of you who answered his words.¹³ "Do not say, 'We have found wisdom; God will rout him, not man.' ¹⁴ "For he has not arranged his words against me, Nor will I reply to him with your arguments.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

unto you: Weadeychem is rendered "and your testimonies," by the Syriac, Arabic, and LXX, and one of De Rossi's manuscripts (874) is so pointed as to require this reading.

behold: Job 32:3, 1 Timothy 1:7

Reciprocal: Job 5:27 - we have searched Job 29:21 - gave ear Job 32:4 - waited till Job had spoken Job 33:5 - If

Cross-References

Genesis 22:17
indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

Genesis 32:3
Then Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

Genesis 32:4
He also commanded them saying, "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: 'Thus says your servant Jacob, "I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now;

Genesis 32:6
The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and furthermore he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him."

Genesis 32:13
So he spent the night there. Then he selected from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau:

Genesis 32:15
thirty milking camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

Exodus 32:13
"Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, 'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

Numbers 23:19
"God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

1 Samuel 15:29
"Also the Glory of Israel will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind."

Matthew 24:35
"Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yea, I attended unto you,.... Very closely, with great application and diligence, endeavouring to get, as it were, within them, and thoroughly understand the meaning of what they said:

and, behold, [there was] none of you that convinced Job; which was not owing to his obstinacy, but to want of proof in them, their words and arguments; they had charged Job highly, as particularly Eliphaz,

Job 22:5; but then they failed in their proof; they produced nothing to support their allegations:

[or] that answered his words; the arguments and reasons he gave in proof of his own innocence and uprightness, or the instances he produced, showing that God often afflicted good men, and suffered the wicked to prosper; and therefore no argument could be drawn from God's dealings with men, proving they were either of this or the other character, good or bad men.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There was none of you that convinced Job - There was no one to produce conviction on his mind, or rather, there was no one to reprove him by answering him - ענה מוכיח môkiyach ‛ânâh. They were completely silenced: and had nothing to reply to the arguments which he had advanced, and to his reflections on the divine government.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 32:12. Yea, I attended unto you — Instead of ועדיכם veadeychem, and unto you, one MS. reads the above letters with points that cause it to signify and your testimonies; which is the reading of the Syriac, Arabic, and Septuagint.

Behold, there was none of you that convinced Job — Confuted Job. They spoke multitudes of words, but were unable to overthrow his arguments.