Job 11:3
Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
Majority Standard Bible
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
2“Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?
4You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’
Cross References
Job 13:4You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
Job 15:2“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
Job 21:3Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
Psalms 83:16Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.
2 Thessalonians 3:14Take note of anyone who does not obey the instructions we have given in this letter. Do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.
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 →