Job 16:3

Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?

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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 things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

4I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

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Cross References

Job 6:26Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?

Job 15:2“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?

Job 27:12Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?

Matthew 22:46No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.

Titus 2:8and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

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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