Job 16:3

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes thee that thou answer?

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

In Context

2I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are ye all.

4I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead. I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

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Cross References

Job 6:26Do ye think to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of a man who is desperate are as wind?

Job 15:2Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

Job 27:12Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it. Why then have ye become altogether vain?

Matthew 22:46And no man was able to answer him a word, nor did any man from that day dare to question him any more.

Titus 2:8sound speech, irreproachable, so that the man of opposition may be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

Matthew Henry on Job 16:2-6

The Reply of Job to Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. 5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief. Both Job and his friends took the same way that disputants commonly… Read the whole commentary →

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