Job 16:3
May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
In Context
2Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
Cross References
Job 6:26My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.
Job 15:2Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?
Job 27:12Truly, you have all seen it yourselves; why then have you become completely foolish?
Matthew 22:46And no one was able to give him an answer, and so great was their fear of him, that from that day no one put any more questions to him.
Titus 2:8Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of 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 →