They are dismayed; they answer no more; words have departed from them, describing the three friends' condition at this moment—speechlessness, loss of words—suggesting that their inability to respond to Job has reduced them to silence. The dismay suggests emotional state consequent to failed argumentation. The departure of words suggests that their capacity for speech has been exhausted. The verse emphasizes the three friends' complete verbal collapse.

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