Job 16:3

King James 2000

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldens you that you answer?

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Do you intend to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is an opponent may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

Whose mouths must be stopped, who ruin whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain.

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

I have heard the rebuke of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.

How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

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

Behold, all you yourselves have seen it; why then are you thus altogether vain?