Job 16:3

Shall windy words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2I have heard many such things; sorry comforters are ye all.

4I also could speak as ye do; if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

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Cross References

Job 6:26Do ye hold words to be an argument, but the speeches of one that is desperate to be wind?

Job 15:2Should a wise man make answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Job 27:12Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye become altogether vain?

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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