Job 16:3

American Standard Version (1901)

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:26 : 26 Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?
  • Job 15:2 : 2 Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
  • Job 20:3 : 3 I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answereth me.
  • Job 32:3-6 : 3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. 4 Now Elihu had waited to speak unto Job, because they were elder than he. 5 And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled. 6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; Wherefore I held back, and durst not show you mine opinion.
  • Matt 22:46 : 46 And no one was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
  • Titus 2:8 : 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 us.
  • 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?

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