Is there no end to your futile words? What compels you to answer?
Shall vain words have an end? Or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Will your futile words of wind have no end? Or what makes you so bold to answer [me like this]?
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
Will windy talk ever cease; what bothers you that you must argue?
Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?
Shall windy words have no end? Or is it any trouble to thee to speak?
“Does a wise man answer with empty knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?
I hear a rebuke that dishonors me and my understanding inspires me to reply.
Look, you have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
Do you intend to correct my words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?
“How long will you say these things? The words of your mouth are like a mighty wind.
No one was able to answer Him a word. Nor did anyone dare from that day on to question Him any longer.
They must be silenced—those who upset entire households by teaching what they should not, for the sake of dishonest gain.
sound speech beyond criticism—so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.
So it was year after year, whenever she went up to the House of Adonai, that she would provoke her; so she wept and would not eat.