Job 16:3

Shall there be none ende of wordes of winde? or what maketh thee bold so to answere?

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2I haue oft times heard such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

4I could also speake as yee doe: (but woulde God your soule were in my soules stead) I could keepe you company in speaking, and could shake mine head at you,

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Cross References

Job 6:26Doe ye imagine to reproue wordes, that the talke of the afflicted should be as the winde?

Job 15:2Shal a wise man speake words of ye winde, and fill his bellie with the East winde?

Job 27:12Beholde, all ye your selues haue seene it: why then doe you thus vanish in vanitie?

Matthew 22:46And none could answere him a worde, neither durst any from that day foorth aske him any moe questions.

Titus 2:8And with the wholesome woorde, which can not be condemned, that hee which withstandeth, may be ashamed, hauing nothing concerning you to speake euill of.

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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