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Job 32 likely originally said Job's friends "declared God guilty" by failing to answer him. Scribes in the Masoretic tradition would have changed "God" to "Job" to avoid using disrespectful language towards God.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Job 32:3
Hebrew Bible
1 So these three men refused to answer Job further, because he was righteous in his own eyes. 2 Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry. He was angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God. 3 With Job’s three friends he was also angry because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job guilty.
Date: 500–401 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
LXX Job 32:3
Septuagint
1 And his three friends also ceased any longer to answer Job: for Job was righteous before them. 2 Then Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, of the country of Uz, was angered: and he was very angry with Job, because he justified himself before the Lord. 3 And he was also very angry with his three friends, because they were not able to return answers to Job, yet set him down for an ungodly man.
Date: 100–1 BCE (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... The Septuagint has epsyeusato "he lied," which would correspond to "he [God] lies" (so Dhorme, arguing that the Masoretic Text represents a correction to avoid the blasphemy of the original text, and comparing 32:3, though it is open to question whether the supposed Masoretic correction [tiqqun sopherim] there is genuine). This revocalization was further adopted by Holscher, Terrien, and Pope. ..."
David J. A. Clines, Word Biblical Commentary: Job 21-37 (Dallas: Word, 2006), 324.
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