Job 16:3

What does Job 16:3 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 16:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

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?

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

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

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

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

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak?

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Shall words of wind 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.

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