Job 16:3

English Standard Version 2016

Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

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Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?

“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.

They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.

And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.

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

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

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.

Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?