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Job 16:3
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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?
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
Abram’s wife Sarai had not borne any children for him, but she owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar.
He slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she saw that she was pregnant, her mistress became contemptible to her.
Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for my suffering! I put my slave in your arms, and when she saw that she was pregnant, I became contemptible to her. May the Lord judge between me and you.”
But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines, and while he was still alive he sent them eastward, away from his son Isaac, to the land of the East.
so Esau went to Ishmael and married, in addition to his other wives, Mahalath daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son. She was the sister of Nebaioth.
So Rachel gave her slave Bilhah to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two slave women, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok.
While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.
After he arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.
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 ××××¨× ×¨×× "verbis venti", Beza, Bolducius, Mercerus, Schmidt, Michaelis. l ×× ××ר××¦× "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. âHis promise, it is only wind.â âBreath, breath: all breath.â Roberts.
Or what emboldeneth thee? - âWhat 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?â The Syriac reads this, âdo not afflict me any more with speeches; for if you speak any more, I will not answer you.â
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?
