Job 16:3

New King James Version

Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

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Do you intend to rebuke my words, And the speeches of a desperate one, which are as wind?

“Should a wise man answer with empty knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you.

whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.

And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.

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

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

So it was, year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, that she provoked her; therefore she wept and did not eat.

Surely all of you have seen it; Why then do you behave with complete nonsense?