Job 16:3

A Conservative Version

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes thee that thou answer?

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Do ye think to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of a man who is desperate are as wind?

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

sound speech, irreproachable, so that the man of opposition may be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

who must be muzzled, men who subvert whole houses, teaching things that they ought not, for sake of ugly profit.

And no man was able to answer him a word, nor did any man from that day dare to question him any more.

I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame, and the spirit of my understanding answers me.

How long will thou speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of thy mouth be [like] a mighty wind?

And [as] he did so year by year when she went up to the house of LORD, so she provoked her. Therefore she wept, and did not eat.

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it. Why then have ye become altogether vain?