Job 35:16
You, Job, are talking nonsense, making long speeches when you know nothing!”
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
In Context
15You're saying that God doesn't punish people in his anger and pays little attention to sin.
Cross References
Job 3:1After this Job began speaking, cursing the day of his birth.
Job 33:8You spoke in my hearing and I have listened to everything you had to say.
Job 38:2“Who is this who questions my wisdom by talking so ignorantly?
Matthew Henry on Job 35:15-16
14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him. 15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity: 16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. Here is, I. Another improper word for which Elihu reproves Job ( v. 14 ): Thou sayest thou shalt not see him; that is, 1. "Thou complainest that thou dost not understand the meaning of his severe dealings with thee, nor… Read the whole commentary →