Job 16:3

Will there ever be an end to words of wind? What stirreth thee up, that thou answerest?

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In The King James Version

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

In Context

2Of such things as these I have heard enough! Miserable comforters are ye all!

4I also might speak like you, If ye were now in my place; I might string together words against you, And shake my head at you.

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Cross References

Job 6:26Do ye mean to censure words? The words of a man in despair are but wind.

Job 15:2Should a wise man answer with arguments of wind, Or fill his bosom with the east wind?

Job 27:12Behold, ye yourselves have all seen it; Why then do ye cherish such vain thoughts?

Matthew 22:46And no one was able to answer him a word; nor durst any one from that day question him any more.

Titus 2:8sound speech that cannot be condemned; that he that is opposed to us may be put to shame, having no evil thing to say of 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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