Job 16:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

Job 16:3 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 6:26
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Job 15:2
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
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.
Job 32:3-6
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. …
Job 8:2
How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Bigotry Intolerance, Religious Martyrdom Persecution Speaking Suffering

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-5)

Both Job and his friends took the same way that disputants commonly take, which is to undervalue one another’s sense, and wisdom, and management. The longer the saw of contention is drawn the hotter it grows; and the beginning of this sort of strife is as the letting forth of water; therefore leave it off before it be meddled with. Eliphaz had represented Job’s discourses as idle, and unprofitable…

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

(vv. 3)

3. “Words of wind,” Hebrew. He retorts upon Eliphaz his reproach (Job 15:2). emboldeneth--literally, “What wearies you so that ye contradict?” that is, What have I said to provoke you? &c. [Schuttens]. Or, as better accords with the first clause, “Wherefore do ye weary yourselves contradicting?” [Umbreit].