Job 16:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ Have windy words no limit? Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Shall vain words have an end? Or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Will your futile words of wind have no end? Or what makes you so bold to answer [me like this]?

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

Common English Bible

³ Will windy talk ever cease; what bothers you that you must argue?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?

Job 16:3 Cross References

Job 6:26

Do you think that you can reprove words, as if the speech of the desperate were wind?

Job 15:2

“Should the wise answer with windy knowledge and fill themselves with the east wind?

Titus 2:8

and sound speech that cannot be censured; then any opponent will be put to shame, having nothing evil to say of us.

Titus 1:11

they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what it is not right to teach.

Matthew 22:46

No one was able to give him an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.

Job 20:3

I hear censure that insults me, and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.

Job 8:2

“How long will you say these things and the words of your mouth be a great wind?

1 Samuel 1:7

So it went on year by year; as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.

Job 27:12

All of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?