Job 11:3
Shall men hold their peace to thee only? and when thou hast mocked others, shall no man confute thee?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
In Context
2Shall not he that speaketh much, hear also? or shall a man full of talk be justified?
4For thou hast said: My word is pure, and I am clean in thy sight.
Cross References
Job 13:4Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.
Job 15:2Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat?
Job 21:3Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.
Job 34:7What man is there like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Psalms 83:16So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath.
2 Thessalonians 3:14And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed:
Matthew Henry on Job 11:2-7
The Address of Zophar. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, 2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? 3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? 4 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes. 5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; 6 And that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know… Read the whole commentary →