Job 16:3
Is there an end to words of wind? Or what emboldens you that you answer?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
In Context
2“I have heard many such things, || Miserable comforters [are] you all.
Cross References
Job 6:26For reproof—do you reckon words? And for wind—sayings of the desperate?
Job 15:2“Does a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill his belly [with] an east wind?
Job 27:12Behold, you—all of you—have seen, || And why [is] this—you are altogether vain?
Matthew 22:46And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor did any dare question Him from that day [on].
Titus 2:8sound discourse [that is] blameless, so that he who is of the contrary may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.
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 →