Job 11:3

Job, ◄should your babbling cause us to be silent?/your babbling should certainly not cause us to be silent.► [RHQ] When you make fun of us, shall no one rebuke you and cause you to be ashamed?

Translation for Translators

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 no one answer all that you have said?/Someone should certainly answer all that you have said.► [RHQ] Just because you talk a lot, ◄should that cause us to declare that you <are innocent/have done nothing wrong>?/that should not cause us to declare that you <are innocent/have done nothing wrong>.► [RHQ]

4You say, ‘What I say is true; God knows that I am ◄innocent/without guilt►.’

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Cross References

Job 13:4As for you, you do not allow people to know the truth about me, like someone covers up a bad surface of a wall with whitewash [MET]. You are all like doctors [MET] that give people useless medicines.

Job 15:2“If you were truly wise [RHQ], you would not have replied to us by claiming that you know a lot; what you are saying is just a lot of hot air [MET].

Job 21:3Be patient with me, and allow me to speak. Then, after I am finished speaking, you can continue to make fun of me.

Job 34:7◄Is there any person like Job, who insults others as easily as people accept a drink of water?/There is no person like Job, who insults others as easily as people accept a drink of water.► [RHQ]

Psalms 83:16Cause them [SYN] to be very ashamed in order that they will admit that you are very powerful.

2 Thessalonians 3:14If any fellow believer refuses to work and does not obey what I have written in this letter, ◄ publicly identify that person/tell the congregation what that person is doing►. Then do not associate with him, in order that he may become 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 →

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