Job 11:3
1 Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
2 “Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?
Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
4 You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’
5 But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
- KJV
- Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
- 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?
- DARBY
- Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make [thee] ashamed?
- BLB
- Shall your idle boasts cause men to be silent? And will you mock, and no one is ashamed?
- ÅB
- Skulle dine store ord drive menn til taushet, skulle du spotte uten at noen skammer deg ut?
- OTB
- Skal ditt tomme prat bringe andre til taushet?
Vil ingen rette på deg når du håner? - B1930
- Skulde dine store ord drive menn til taushet, skulde du spotte uten at nogen skammer dig ut?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 17:2
Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
Read in contextJude 1:18
when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”
Read in contextJob 21:3
Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
Read in contextPsalms 83:16
Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.
Read in contextJob 15:2–3
“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
Read in contextJob 13:4
You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
Read in contextJob 13:9
Would it be well when He examined you? Could you deceive Him like a man?
Read in contextJob 12:4
I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
Read in context