Job 16:3
Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
In Context
2I have often heard such things; you are all aggravating comforters.
4I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul.
Cross References
Job 6:26You prepare speeches as so much noise, and you offer words into the wind.
Job 15:2Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking wind, and will he fill his stomach with fire?
Job 27:12Behold, you know all this, and so why do you speak vain things without a reason?
Matthew 22:46And no one was able to respond to him a word. And neither did anyone dare, from that day forward, to question him.
Titus 2:8with sound words, irreproachably, so that he who is an opponent may dread that he has nothing evil 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 →