Job 16:3

Lighthouse Bible 2006

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whose mouths must be stopped, who corrupt whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for unjust gain’s sake.

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

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.