Job 16:3
Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 as these: you are all troublesome comforters.
4I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.
Cross References
Job 6:26You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the wind.
Job 15:2Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat?
Job 27:12Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?
Matthew 22:46And no man was able to answer him a word; neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
Titus 2:8The sound word that can not be blamed: that he, who is on the contrary part, may be afraid, having no evil to say 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 →