Job 32:4

La Bible Ostervald

Et Élihu avait attendu pour s'adresser à Job qu'ils eussent parlé, parce qu'ils étaient plus âgés que lui.

Parallel Translations

Darby's French Translation
Et �lihu avait attendu que Job e�t cess� de parler, parce qu'ils �taient plus avanc�s en jours que lui.

Louis Segond (1910)
Comme ils �taient plus �g�s que lui, Elihu avait attendu jusqu'� ce moment pour parler � Job.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Or Elihu avait attendu que Job e�t parl�, � cause qu'ils �taient tous plus �g�s que lui.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

waited till Job had spoken: Heb. expected Job in words, Job 32:11, Job 32:12, Proverbs 18:13

elder: Heb. elder for days

Reciprocal: Leviticus 19:32 - General Psalms 119:100 - understand Ecclesiastes 3:7 - and a time to speak

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken,.... Made an end of speaking, until he had thus expressed himself, "the words of Job are ended", Job 31:40: and waited likewise until his three friends had said all they had to say, and which is here supposed and implied, as appears by what follows:

because they [were] elder than he; it may be added, from the original text, "in", or "as two days" l; they had lived longer in the world than he, and therefore did not take upon him to speak till they had done; he, as became a young man, was swift to hear, and slow to speak; that they were old men, appears from what Eliphaz says, Job 15:10.

l לימים "diebus", Beza, Montanus, Mercerus; "quod ad dies", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Now Elihu had waited - Margin, as in Hebrew, expected Job in words. The meaning is plain, that he had waited until all who were older than himself had spoken.

Because they were elder than he - Margin, as in Hebrew, older for days. It appears that they were all older than he was. We have no means of determining their respective ages, though it would seem probable that Eliphaz was the oldest of the three friends, as he uniformly spoke first.