Job 16:3

Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

Darby Translation

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: grievous comforters are ye all.

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

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Cross References

Job 6:26Do ye imagine to reprove words? The speeches of one that is desperate are indeed for the wind.

Job 15:2Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,

Job 27:12Behold, ye yourselves have all seen [it]; and why are ye thus altogether vain?

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

Titus 2:8a sound word, not to be condemned; that he who is opposed may be ashamed, having no evil thing 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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