Devine Scripture

Job 16:3

Job chapter 16 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

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

v.3This passage

v.4I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 8:2

    How long wilt thou speak these things? Andhow longshall the words of thy mouth be like a mighty wind?

  • Job 15:2

    Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

  • Job 6:26

    Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?

  • 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 us.

  • Matthew 22:46

    And no one was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.

  • Titus 1:11

    whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.