Job 16:3

American Standard Version 2015

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame;\par\tab And the spirit of my understanding answereth me.

How long wilt thou speak these things?\par\tab And {\i how long} shall the words of thy mouth be {\i like} a mighty wind?

And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Jehovah, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it;\par\tab Why then are ye become altogether vain?\par