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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?
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?
Shall not vaine wordes come yet to an ende? Or what maketh thee bolde so to aunswere?
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
Now Sarai Avram's wife had not borne him a child. But she had an Egyptian slave-girl named Hagar;
Avram had sexual relations with Hagar, and she conceived. But when she became aware that she was pregnant, she looked on her mistress with contempt.
Sarai said to Avram, "This outrage being done to me is your fault! True, I gave my slave-girl to you to sleep with; but when she saw that she was pregnant, she began holding me in contempt. May Adonai decide who is right — I or you!"
But to the sons of the concubines he made grants while he was still living and sent them off to the east, to the land of Kedem, away from Yitz'chak his son.
So ‘Esav went to Yishma‘el and took, in addition to the wives he already had, Machalat the daughter of Yishma‘el Avraham's son, the sister of N'vayot, to be his wife. Haftarah Tol'dot: Mal'akhi (Malachi) 1:1–2:7 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Tol'dot: Romans 9:6–16; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 11:20; 12:14–17 Ya‘akov went out from Be'er-Sheva and traveled toward Haran. He came to a certain place and stayed the night there, because the sun had set. He took a stone from the place, put it under his head and lay down there to sleep. He dreamt that there before him was a ladder resting on the ground with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of Adonai were going up and down on it. Then suddenly Adonai was standing there next to him; and he said, "I am Adonai , the God of Avraham your [grand]father and the God of Yitz'chak. The land on which you are lying I will give to you and to your descendants. Your descendants will be as numerous as the grains of dust on the earth. You will expand to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. By you and your descendants all the families of the earth will be blessed. Look, I am with you. I will guard you wherever you go, and I will bring you back into this land, because I won't leave you until I have done what I have promised you." Ya‘akov awoke from his sleep and said, "Truly, Adonai is in this place — and I didn't know it!" Then he became afraid and said, "This place is fearsome! This has to be the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!" Ya‘akov got up early in the morning, took the stone he had put under his head, set it up as a standing-stone, poured olive oil on its top and named the place Beit-El [house of God]; but the town had originally been called Luz. Ya‘akov took this vow: "If God will be with me and will guard me on this road that I am traveling, giving me bread to eat and clothes to wear, so that I return to my father's house in peace, then Adonai will be my God; and this stone, which I have set up as a standing-stone, will be God's house; and of everything you give me, I will faithfully return one-tenth to you."
So she gave him Bilhah her slave-girl as his wife, and Ya‘akov went in and slept with her.
When Le'ah saw that she had stopped having children, she took Zilpah her slave-girl and gave her to Ya‘akov as his wife.
So the present crossed over ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.
It was while Isra'el was living in that land that Re'uven went and slept with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Isra'el heard about it. Ya‘akov had twelve sons.
David took for himself more concubines and wives in Yerushalayim after coming from Hevron, so that still more sons and daughters were born to David.
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?
