Job 11:3
Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
Job 11:3 in other translations
| BSB | Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke? |
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| WEB | Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed? |
| ASV | Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? |
| YLT | Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing! |
| DARBY | Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make thee ashamed? |
| BBE | Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame? |
| Webster | Should thy falsehoods make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? |
What does Job 11:3 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 11:1-6
Zophar attacked Job with great vehemence. He represented him as a man that loved to hear himself speak, though he could say nothing to the purpose, and as a man that maintained falsehoods. He desired God would show Job that less punishment was exacted than he deserved. We are ready, with much assurance, to call God to act in our quarrels, and to think that if he would but speak, he would take our part. We ought to…
Job 11:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 11:3
- Job 17:2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
- Jude 1:18
How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
- Job 21:3
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
- Psalms 83:16
Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord.
- Job 15:2-3
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
- Job 13:4
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
- Job 13:9
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
- Job 12:4
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
- Psalms 35:16
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
- Titus 2:8
Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:14
And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
- Job 34:7
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
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Context
- Job 11:2
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
- Job 11:3
Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
- Job 11:4
For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
Job 11:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Harán tus falacias callar á los hombres? ¿y harás escarnio, y no habrá quien te avergüence? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tes mensonges doivent-ils faire taire les gens? Te moqueras-tu, sans que personne te fasse honte? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Sollte dein Gerede die Leute zum Schweigen bringen, daß du spotten solltest, und niemand dich beschämen, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Tibi soli tacebunt homines? et cum ceteros irriseris, a nullo confutaberis? |