Job 16:3
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Job 16:3 in other translations
| BSB | Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying? |
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| WEB | Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? |
| ASV | Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? |
| YLT | Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest? |
| DARBY | Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? |
| BBE | May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them? |
| Webster | Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? |
What does Job 16:3 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 16:1-5
Eliphaz had represented Job's discourses as unprofitable, and nothing to the purpose; Job here gives his the same character. Those who pass censures, must expect to have them retorted; it is easy, it is endless, but what good does it do? Angry answers stir up men's passions, but never convince their judgments, nor set truth in a clear light. What Job says of his friends is true of all creatures, in comparison with…
Job 16:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 16:3
- Job 6:26
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
- Job 15:2
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
- Job 32:3-6
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he. When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled. And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.
- 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.
- Titus 1:11
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
- Matthew 22:46
And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
- Job 8:2
How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
- Job 20:3
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
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Context
- Job 16:2
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
- Job 16:3
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
- Job 16:4
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.
Job 16:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Tendrán fin las palabras ventosas? ó ¿qué te animará á responder? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Y aura-t-il une fin à ces paroles de vent? Qu’est-ce qui t’irrite, que tu répondes? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Hat es ein Ende mit den windigen Worten? oder was reizt dich, daß du antwortest? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Numquid habebunt finem verba ventosa? aut aliquid tibi molestum est, si loquaris? |