Cross References

Job 16:3

Modern English Version

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

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“Should a wise man reply with empty knowledge and fill his lungs with the east wind?

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

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

Do you mean to correct my words, and treat my desperate words as wind?

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

No one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare to ask Him any more questions.

who must be silenced, who subvert whole houses by teaching for dishonest gain things they ought not teach.

and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that the one who opposes you may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you.

Thus it was yearly, when she went up to the house of the Lord, that she provoked her. So Hannah wept and did not eat.