Job 16:3

Shall there be any end to words of wind? or what compelleth thee that thou shouldst answer?

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2I have heard many things such as these: troublesome comforters are ye all.

4I also could well speak as ye do: if your soul were but in my soul's stead, I could overwhelm you with words, and could shake my head at you.

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Cross References

Job 6:26Do ye think to reprove words, and [to regard] as wind the speeches of one that is despairing?

Job 15:2Should a wise man utter windy knowledge, and fill his inward parts with the east wind?

Job 27:12Lo! ye yourselves have all beheld it: why is it then that ye deal in such vanities?

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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