Job 16:3

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

King James Version

In Context

2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

4I 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.

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Cross References

Job 6:26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

Job 15:2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Job 27:12Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

Matthew 22:46And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions .

Titus 2:8Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of 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 →

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