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Job 16:3

Words and speechFriendship

1 Then Job answered and said,

2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

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.

5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

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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 ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

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  • Job 15:2

    Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

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  • Job 32:3–6

    Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

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  • 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.

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  • Titus 1:11

    Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

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  • 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.

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  • Job 8:2

    How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

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  • 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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