Job 11:3

Be not a speaker of many words; 1 For is there none to answer thee? 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

In Context

2He that speaks much, should also hear on the other side: 1 Or does the fluent speaker think himself to be righteous? 1 Blessed is the short-lived offspring of woman. 1

4For say not, I am pure in my works, 1 And blameless before him. 1

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Cross References

Job 13:4But ye are all bad physicians, 1 And healers of diseases. 1

Job 15:2Will a wise man give for answer a mere breath of wisdom? 1 And does he fill up the pain of his belly, 1

Job 21:3Raise me, and I will speak; 1 Then ye shall not laugh me to scorn. 1

Job 34:7What man is as Job, 1 Drinking scorning like water? 1

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 →

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