Job 16:3 “Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to con…”

Job 16:3

Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

American Standard Version

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

Geneva Bible 1599

Shall there be none ende of wordes of winde? or what maketh thee bold so to answere?

Darby Translation

Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

Young's Literal Translation

Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?

Bible in Basic English

May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?

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Cross references

“vain words”

Job 6:26 Job 15:2 Job 8:2

Job 6:26 · BSB

Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?

Job 15:2 · BSB

“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?

Job 8:2 · BSB

“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.

“what emboldeneth”

Job 20:3 Job 32:3–6 Matthew 22:46 Titus 1:11 Titus 2:8

Job 20:3 · BSB

I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.

Job 32:3–6 · BSB

and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.

Matthew 22:46 · BSB

No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.

Titus 1:11 · BSB

who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.

Titus 2:8 · BSB

and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

4I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

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