Job 11:2
Shall not the multitude of words receive an answer? Shall the man of words be justified?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
In Context
1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said:
3Shall thy boastings make men hold their peace? Shalt thou mock, and none put thee to shame?
Cross References
Job 16:3Will there ever be an end to words of wind? What stirreth thee up, that thou answerest?
Psalms 140:11The slanderer shall not be established upon the earth; Evil shall pursue the violent man to destruction.
Ecclesiastes 5:1Look well to thy feet, when thou goest to the house of God, and draw nigh to hear, rather than to offer sacrifice as fools. For they consider not that they do evil.
James 1:19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
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 →