Job 11:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

Job 11:3 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 17:2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
Jude 1:18
How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Titus 2:8
Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Psalms 83:16
Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
Job 15:2-3
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? …

Topics

Bigotry Censoriousness Charitableness Criticism, Unjust Fault Finding Judging Misjudgment Uncharitableness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

It is sad to see what intemperate passions even wise and good men are sometimes betrayed into by the heat of disputation, of which Zophar here is an instance. Eliphaz began with a very modest preface, Job 4:2. Bildad was a little more rough upon Job, Job 8:2. But Zophar falls upon him without mercy, and gives him very bad language: Should a man full of talk be justified? And should thy lies make m…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. lies--rather, “vain boasting” (Is 16:6; Jr 48:30). The “men” is emphatic; men of sense; in antithesis to “vain boasting.” mockest--upbraidest God by complaints, “shall no man make thee ashamed?”