Job 16:3
1 Then Job answered:
2 “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
4 I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
5 But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
- KJV
- Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
- 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?
- DARBY
- Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
- BLB
- [Is] an end to words of wind? Or what compels you that you answer?
- ÅB
- Blir det aldri ende på de vindige ord? Eller hva egger deg til å svare?
- OTB
- Er det ingen ende på deres langdryge taler?
Hva får dere til å fortsette å krangle? - B1930
- Blir det aldri ende på de vindige ord? Eller hvad egger dig til å svare?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 6:26
Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
Read in contextJob 15:2
“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
Read in contextJob 32:3–6
and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
Read in contextTitus 2:8
and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed to have nothing bad to say about us.
Read in contextTitus 1:11
who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.
Read in contextMatthew 22:46
No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.
Read in contextJob 8:2
“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
Read in contextJob 20:3
I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
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