Job 16:3

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

2“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

4I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

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Cross References

Job 6:26Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

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

Job 27:12Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?

Matthew 22:46No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.

Titus 2:8and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing 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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