Job 11:2

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 18:2 : 2 How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; But he that refraineth his lips doeth wisely.
  • Acts 17:18 : 18 And certain also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, What would this babbler say? others, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
  • Ps 140:11 : 11 An evil speaker shall not be established in the earth: Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
  • Job 8:2 : 2 How long wilt thou speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of thy mouth be [like] a mighty wind?
  • Job 16:3 : 3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

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