Job 11:2
“Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
In Context
1And Zophar the Naamathite answers and says:
3Your boastings make men keep silent, || You scorn, and none is causing blushing!
Cross References
Job 16:3Is there an end to words of wind? Or what emboldens you that you answer?
Psalms 140:11A talkative man is not established in the earth, || One of violence—evil hunts to overflowing.
Ecclesiastes 5:1Keep your feet when you go to a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil.
James 1:19So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
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 →