Job 16:3

Will useless words ever have an end? 1 What is wrong with you that you answer like this? 1

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

In Context

2“I have heard many such things; 1 you are all miserable comforters. 1

4I also could speak as you do, 1 if you were in my place; 1 I could collect and join words together against you 1 and shake my head at you in mockery. 1

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Cross References

Job 6:26Do you plan to ignore my words, 1 treating the words of a desperate man like the wind? 1

Job 15:2“Should a wise man answer with useless knowledge 1 and fill himself with the east wind? 1

Job 27:12See, all of you have seen this yourselves; 1 why then have you spoken all this nonsense? 1

Matthew 22:46No one was able to answer him a word, and no man dared ask him any more questions from that day on.

Titus 2:8and a correct message, so that anyone who opposes you may be ashamed because they have 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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