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Job 16:3
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Is there no end to your empty words?What provokes you that you continue testifying?
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Will your long-winded speeches never end? What makes you keep on arguing?
Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
"Is there no end to [your futile] words of wind? Or what plagues you [so much] that you [so boldly] answer [me like this]?
"Is there no end to windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Shall there be none ende of wordes of winde? or what maketh thee bold so to answere?
Is there no end to windy words?Or what pains you that you answer?
Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
So why don't you keep quiet? What's bothering you?
Is there no end to words of wind? What provokes you to answer this way?
Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
Your long speeches never end! Why do you continue arguing?
Do not grieve my spirit with words; even though you speak, I will not answer.
Are you going to keep on talking forever? Do you always have to have the last word?
Is there a limit to windy words? What provokes you that you answer?
Is there an end to windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Shall not thy vayne wordes come yet to an ende? Or, hast thou yet eny more to saye?
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
Shall windy words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
Shall vaine words haue an ende? or what emboldeneth thee, that thou answerest?
What! is there any reason in vain words? or what will hinder thee from answering?
Shall vain words have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
Whether wordis ful of wynd schulen haue an ende? ether ony thing is diseseful to thee, if thou spekist?
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Won't you ever stop blowing hot air? What makes you keep on talking?
Is there no end to your words that are full of wind? What is your problem that you keep on talking?
Have windy words no limit? Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?
Is there to be an end to windy words? Or what so strongly exciteth thee, that thou must respond?
Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak?
Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?
"Is there no limit to windy words? Or what plagues you that you answer?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
vain words: Heb. words of wind, Job 6:26, Job 8:2, Job 15:2
what emboldeneth: Job 20:3, Job 32:3-6, Matthew 22:46, Titus 1:11, Titus 2:8
Reciprocal: Exodus 5:9 - vain words Job 6:25 - what doth Job 11:2 - the multitude Job 13:5 - General Job 15:3 - he reason Job 18:2 - How long Job 27:12 - altogether Romans 9:20 - repliest
Cross-References
Sarai Abrams wyfe bare hym no chyldren: but she had an handemayde an Egyptian, Hagar by name.
And he went in vnto Hagar, and she conceaued. And when she sawe that she had conceaued, her mistresse was despised in her eyes.
And Sarai sayde vnto Abram: there is wrong done vnto me by thee: I haue geuen my mayde into thy bosome, whiche seyng that she hath conceaued, I am despised in her eyes, the Lorde be iudge betweene thee & me.
But vnto the sonnes of the concubines whiche Abraham had, he gaue gyftes, and sent them away from Isahac his sonne (whyle he yet lyued) eastwarde vnto the east countrey.
Then went Esau vnto Ismael, and toke vnto the wyues [which he had] Mahalah the daughter of Ismael Abrahams sonne, the sister of Nebaioth to be his wyfe.
And she gaue him Bilha her handmayde to wyfe: and Iacob went in vnto her.
When Lea sawe that she had left bearyng chyldren she toke Zilpha her mayde, and gaue her Iacob to wyfe.
And he rose vp the same nyght, and toke his two wyues, & his two maydeseruauntes, and his eleuen sonnes, and went ouer the forde Iaboc.
And as Israel dwelt in that land, Ruben went and lay with Bilha his fathers concubine: And it came to Israels eare. The sonnes of Iacob were twelue in number.
And Dauid toke him mo concubines and wyues out of Hierusalem, after he was come from Hebron, and mo sonnes & daughters were yet borne to Dauid.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Shall vain words have an end?.... Or "words of wind" k, vain empty words, great swelling words of vanity, mere bubbles that look big, and have nothing in them; here Job retorts what Eliphaz had insinuated concerning him and his words, Job 15:2; and he intimates such worthless discourses should have an end, and a speedy one, and not be carried on to any length, they not bearing it; and wishes they were at an end, that he might hear no more of them; and suggests that it was weak and foolish in them to continue them; that if they could speak to no better purpose, it would be best to be silent:
or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? when men are engaged in a good cause, have truth on their side, and are furnished with arguments sufficient to defend it, this animates and emboldens them to stand up in the defence of it, and to answer their adversaries, and to reply when there is occasion; but Job could not imagine what should encourage and spirit up Eliphaz to answer again, when he had been sufficiently confuted; when his cause was bad, and he had no strong reasons to produce in the vindication of it; or "what has exasperated" or "provoked thee" l to make reply? here Job seems to have thought that he had said nothing that was irritating, though it is notorious he had, such were his grief and troubles; and so well assured he was of his being in the right, that the harsh and severe words and expressions he had used were not thought by him to have exceeded due bounds, such as
Job 12:2.
k לדברי רוח "verbis venti", Beza, Bolducius, Mercerus, Schmidt, Michaelis. l מה ימריצך "quid exacerbat te", Junius Tremellius so Codureus, Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Shall vain words? - Margin, As in Hebrew words of wind; that is, words which were devoid of thought-light, trifling. This is a retort on Eliphaz. He had charged Job Job 15:2-3 with uttering only such words. Such forms of expression are common in the East. “His promise, it is only wind.” “Breath, breath: all breath.” Roberts.
Or what emboldeneth thee? - “What provokes or irritates thee, that thou dost answer in this manner? What have I said, that has given occasion to such a speech - a speech so severe and unkind?” The Syriac reads this, “do not afflict me any more with speeches; for if you speak any more, I will not answer you.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 16:3. Vain words — Literally, words of air.
What emboldeneth thee — Thou art totally ignorant of the business; what then can induce thee to take part in this discussion?
