Job 16:3
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Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
In other translations
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Job 6:26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
- Job 15:2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
- 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.No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.
- Job 20:3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
- Titus 1:11Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.
- Job 32:3-63 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. 4 Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he. 5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled. 6 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.3 and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him. 4 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because the others were older than he. 5 But when he saw that the three men had no further reply, his anger was kindled. 6 So Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite declared: “I am young in years, while you are old; that is why I was timid and afraid to tell you what I know.
- Job 8:2How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
- 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.and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.
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