Job 16:3
Shall divrei ruach (vain words) have an end? 1 Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 menachamei amal (miserable comforters) are ye all. 1
Cross References
Job 6:26Do ye think to reprove words? 1 The words of one in despair, which are as ruach? 1
Job 15:2Should a chacham (wise man) utter vain knowledge, 1 and fill his inner being with the east wind? 1
Job 27:12Hen (behold), all ye yourselves have seen it; 1 why then are ye thus altogether vain? 1
Matthew 22:46And no one was able to give an answer to him, nor did anyone dare to pose another she'elah (question) to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach from that day on.
Titus 2:8Along with dibur (speech) that is orthodox + 2:8 in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and beyond reproach, that the mitnagged may be brought to bushah (shame), having no lashon hora to say against you.
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 →