Cross References

Job 16:3

New American Bible - revised edition

Is there no end to windy words? What sickness makes you rattle on?

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Does a wise man answer with windy opinions, or puff himself up with the east wind?

A rebuke that puts me to shame I hear, and from my understanding a spirit gives me a reply.

Look, you yourselves have all seen it; why do you spend yourselves in empty words!

Do you consider your words as proof, but the sayings of a desperate man as wind?

How long will you utter such things? The words from your mouth are a mighty wind!

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

It is imperative to silence them, as they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what they should not.

and sound speech that cannot be criticized, so that the opponent will be put to shame without anything bad to say about us.

Year after year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, Peninnah would provoke her, and Hannah would weep and refuse to eat.