Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 32:15 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 15. 15They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
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Role in This Section
Job 32:15 opens the thought unit with the words “They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.” Elihu states “They were amazed, they answered no more” as one poetic claim in Elihu Says He Is Compelled to Speak without Flattery.
Read It With
- Job 32:15–32:22
Read Job 32:15 with 32:15–32:22. Read alone, “They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Elihu observes the friends' silence, describes words pressing like fermenting wine, and promises impartial speech without flattering titles.
Why It Needs Context
Job 32:15 depends on 32:15–32:22; isolating “They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Elihu and “Elihu Says He Is Compelled to Speak without Flattery.”
Read Job 32:15–22 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 32:15–32:22 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Elihu Says He Is Compelled to Speak without Flattery.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 15. 15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
Verse 16. 16 When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)
Verse 17. 17 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.
Verse 18. 18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
Verse 19. 19 Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles.
Verse 20. 20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
Verse 21. 21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
Verse 22. 22 For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 32:15–32:22 — Elihu Says He Is Compelled to Speak without FlatterySources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 32:15–32:22, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
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Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 32:15–32:22
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