Clarke's Bible Commentary - Job 32:17
Verse 17. I will answer also my part ] yqlj hn[a aaneh chelki, "I will recite my portion." We have already seen that the book of Job is a sort of drama, in which several persons have their different parts to recite. Probably the book was used in this way, in ancient times, for the sake of public instruction. Eliphaz, Zophar, and Bildad, had recited their parts, and Job had responded to each: nothing was brought to issue. Elihu, a bystander, perceiving this, comes forward and takes a part, when all the rest had expended their materials: yet Elihu, though he spoke well, was incapable of closing the controversy; and God himself appears, and decides the case.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 15-22 - If we are sure that the Spirit of God suggested what we are about to say, still we ought to refrain, till it comes to our turn to speak. God is the God of order, not of confusion. It is great refreshment to good man, to speak for the glory of the Lord, and to edify others. An the more we consider the majesty of God, as our Maker, and the more we dread his wrath and justice, the less shall we sinfully fear or flatte men. Could we set the wrathe Lord always before us, in his mercies an his terrors, we should not be moved from doing our duty in whatever we are called to do __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
אענה 6030 אף 637 אני 589 חלקי 2506 אחוה 2331 דעי 1843 אף 637 אני׃ 589
