Job 11:3
Should all your babbling force people to keep quiet? When you mock, shouldn't someone make you feel ashamed?
Free Bible Version
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
4You said, ‘What I teach is the pure truth,’ and ‘in God's eyes I am clean.’
Cross References
Job 13:4As for you, you cover things up by telling lies! You are all like doctors who can't heal anyone!
Job 15:2“Would a wise man answer with such empty ‘knowledge’ that is just a lot of hot air?
Job 21:3Bear with me; let me speak. After I've spoken you can resume mocking me.
Job 34:7Has there ever been a man like Job with such a thirst for ridiculing others?
Psalms 83:16Shame them in defeat so that they come to you, Lord!
2 Thessalonians 3:14Take note of anyone who doesn't do what we're telling you in this letter, and make sure you don't associate with them, so that they may become embarrassed.
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 →