Job 16:3

Will your windy speeches never cease? What's bothering you that you have to answer me?

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In The King James Version

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

In Context

2“I've heard all this before. You are comforters who just cause trouble!

4I could talk like you do if you were in my place, stringing words together to criticize you, ridiculing you with a toss of my head.

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Cross References

Job 6:26Are you going to argue over what I said, when the words of someone in despair should be left to blow away in the wind?

Job 15:2“Would a wise man answer with such empty ‘knowledge’ that is just a lot of hot air?

Job 27:12If all of you have recognized this, why do you talk such vain nonsense?

Matthew 22:46Nobody could answer him, and from then on nobody dared to ask him any more questions.

Titus 2:8sharing healthy beliefs that can't be criticized. In this way those who are opposed will be ashamed of themselves and won't have anything bad 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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