Job 11:2 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

² “Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and should one full of talk be vindicated?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk [and making such great professions] be pronounced free from guilt or blame?

American Standard Version (1901)

² Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?

Common English Bible

² Should all these words go unanswered or a wordy man be justified?

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Will he who speaks much, not also listen? Or will a talkative man be justified?

Job 11:2 Tagairtí Cros

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 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: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger;