Job 16:3

Is there to be an end to windy words? Or what so strongly exciteth thee, that thou must respond?

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2I have heard many such things, Wearisome comforters, are ye all!

4I also, like you, could speak,—If your soul were in the place of my soul, I could string together words against you, and could therewith shake over you my head.

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Cross References

Job 6:26To decide words, do ye intend, When, to the wind, are spoken the sayings of one in despair?

Job 15:2Should, a wise man, answer unreal knowledge? or fill, with the east wind, his inner man?

Job 27:12Lo! ye, have, all of you, seen, Wherefore, then, is it, that ye are utterly without purpose?

Matthew 22:46And, no one, was able to answer him a word, neither durst anyone, from that day, question him, any more.

Titus 2:8healthful discourse that cannot be condemned, in order that, he that is of the contrary part, may relent, having nothing to say concerning us that is disparaging:

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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