Job 16:3

What! is there any reason in vain words? 1 Or what will hinder thee from answering? 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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: 1 Poor comforters are ye all. 1

4I also will speak as ye do: 1 If indeed your soul were in my soul’s stead, 1 Then would I insult you with words, 1 And I would shake my head at you. 1

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Cross References

Job 6:26Neither will your reproof cause me to cease my words, 1 For neither will I endure the sound of your speech. 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 27:12Behold, ye all know that ye are adding vanity to vanity. 1

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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