Job 16:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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Do you think that you can reprove words, as if the speech of the desperate were wind?

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

and sound speech that cannot be censured; then any opponent will be put to shame, having nothing evil to say of us.

they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what it is not right to teach.

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

I hear censure that insults me, and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.

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

So it went on year by year; as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.

All of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?