Job 32:1
Good News Translation
Because Job was convinced of his own innocence, the three men gave up trying to answer him.

New Revised Standard Version
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Contemporary English Version
Finally, these three men stopped arguing with Job, because he refused to admit he was guilty.

New American Bible
Then the three men ceased to answer Job, because in his own eyes he was in the right.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just to himself.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just to himself.

to answer.

Job 6:29 Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye.

Job 10:2,7 I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so? . . .

Job 13:15 Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.

Job 23:7 Let him propose equity against me, and let my judgment come to victory.

Job 27:4-6 My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying. . . .

Job 29:11-17 The ear that heard me blessed me, and the eye that saw me gave witness to me: . . .

Job 31:1 I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.

*etc:

Job 33:9 I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.

Context
Elihu Rebukes Job's Three Friends
1So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he seemed just to himself.2And Eliu the son of Barachel the Buzite of the kindred of Ram, was angry and was moved to indignation: now he was angry against Job, because he said he was just before God.…
Cross References
Job 10:7
And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand?

Job 13:18
If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.

Job 27:5
God forbid that I should judge you to be just: till I die I will not depart from my innocence.

Job 27:6
My justification, which I have begun to hold, I will not forsake: for my heart doth not reprehend me in all my life.

Job 31:6
Let him weigh me in a just balance, and let God know my simplicity.

Job 31:40
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