Job 16:3

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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Do ye imagine 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 of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

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

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

I have heard the check of my reproach, And the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

How long wilt thou speak these things? And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

And as he did so 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 ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye thus altogether vain?