Job 32:15

“They were amazed, etc.] They were like persons thunderstruck, quite surprised and astonished to hear a young man talk after this manner: they answered no more; as they had ceased to answer Job, they did not undertake to answer Elihu, who had plainly told them their arguments were not convincing, their answers were no answers, and that they had done a wrong thing in condemning Job without proof; and that which they thought their greatest wisdom, and strongest argument, had no wisdom nor strength in it; namely, which was taken from his sore afflictions by the hand of God: they left off speaking; or words departed from them, as Jarchi; their speech left them, they seemed deprived of it: Mr.…”

“Here Elihu turns from the friends to Job: and so passes from the second person to the third; a transition frequent in a rebuke (Job 18:3-4). they left off--Words were taken from them.”

“They were amazed - There also are the words of Elihu, and are designed to express his astonishment that the three friends of Job did not answer him. He says that they were completely silenced, and he repeats this to call attention to the remarkable fact that men who began so confidently, and who still held on to their opinion, had not one word more to say. There is some reason to suppose, from the change of person here from the second to the third, that Elihu turned from them to those who were present, and called their attention to the fact that the friends of Job were completely silenced. This supposition, however, is not absolutely necessary, for it is not uncommon in Hebrew poetry to…”

“32:15-16 As translated, the phrase you sit there . . . you are silent is addressed to Job’s friends. An alternate translation is they sit there . . . they are silent, in which case Elihu is speaking to Job about his friends.”

“amazed: Job 6:24, Job 6:25, Job 29:22; Mat 7:23, Mat 22:22, Mat 22:26, Mat 22:34, Mat 22:46 left off speaking: Heb. removed speeches from themselves Job 32:16”

“15 They are amazed, they answer no more, Words have fled from them. 16 And I waited, for they spake not, For they stand still, they answer no more. 17 Therefore I also will answer for my part, I will declare my knowledge, even I. In order to give a more rapid movement and an emotional force to the speech, the figure asyndeton is introduced in Job 32:15, as perhaps in Jer 15:7, Ew. 349, a. Most expositors render העתּיקוּ passively, according to the sense: they have removed from them, i.e., are removed from them; but why may העתיק not signify, like Gen 12:8; Gen 26:22, to move away, viz., the tent = to wander on (Schlottm.)? The figure: words are moved away (as it were according to an…”