Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?
“Would a wise person answer with empty notions or fill their belly with the hot east wind?
I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding inspires me to reply.
You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
Do you mean to correct what I say, and treat my desperate words as wind?
“How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind.
No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.
They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain.
and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.
This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the Lord, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat.