What Does Job 35:1 Mean in the King James?

Elihu spake moreover, and said,

Job 35:1 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

Elihu (⁨אֱלִיהוּא⁩, ʾĔlîhû, “He is my God”) is named just before the verse marks his words as an answer.

THE MEANING

The voice you meet here arrives already within an exchange: the verb introducing it means to answer or respond, before the utterance is given. You receive the relation before the argument, a speaker responding to what has already been said.

THE ROOT

וַיַּעַן

wayyaʿan

GROWS FROM

ענה

to answer, respond

“spake moreover” in this verse is wayyaʿan. The KJV wording carries the moment of speech; the Hebrew verb ⁨ענה⁩ (ʿanah, “answer, respond”) also makes its responsive role visible. Before you hear any claim, the verse places this speech as one turn in an exchange.

ALSO GROWS

ʿānāh: to answer, respond

עָנָה

This verbal form names the act that frames Elihu’s speech.

maʿaneh: an answer, reply

מַעֲנֶה

This noun from the same root makes the response itself a thing in the exchange.

THE PATTERN

Speech is presented as a response within an exchange already underway.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.

Job 32:6 · KJVThe same speaker is introduced with the same answer-and-say pattern, placing his words within an exchange.

And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:

Acts 15:13 · KJVJames’s words arrive as a response after others have spoken.

At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

Matthew 11:25 · KJVThe verse frames Jesus’s words as an answer, even before the content of his speech is heard.

THE THREAD

Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

Job 13:22 · KJV

Both turn on ⁨ענה⁩ (ʿanah, “answer, respond”): Job asks for a reciprocal exchange, while this verse introduces Elihu as answering. The shared root lets you hear Elihu’s speech as one turn in an exchange whose other voices are already present.

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