Job 11:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and should one full of talk be vindicated?

Cross References

Job 11:1

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:

Job 15:2

“Should the wise answer with windy knowledge and fill themselves with the east wind?

Job 16:3

Have windy words no limit? Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?

Job 18:2

“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we shall speak.

Job 8:2

“How long will you say these things and the words of your mouth be a great wind?

Psalm 140:11

Do not let the slanderer be established in the land; let evil speedily hunt down the violent!

Proverbs 10:19

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but the prudent are restrained in speech.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than the sacrifice offered by fools, for they do not know how to keep from doing evil.

Ecclesiastes 5:3

For dreams come with many cares, and a fool’s voice with many words.

Acts 17:18

Also some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers debated with him. Some said, “What does this pretentious babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign divinities.” (This was because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.)

James 1:19

You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,