Job 16:3

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Will your words of wind never end? Or what provokes you to answer?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:26 : 26 Do you intend to rebuke my words and treat the words of a despairing man as mere wind?
  • Job 15:2 : 2 Should a wise man answer with empty words, and fill his belly with the hot east wind?
  • Job 20:3 : 3 I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding prompts me to reply.
  • Job 32:3-6 : 3 Elihu was also angry with Job's three friends because they had found no answer and yet they had condemned Job. 4 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he was. 5 When Elihu saw that there was no response in the mouths of the three men, his anger was aroused. 6 So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said, "I am young in years, and you are old; therefore, I held back and was afraid to tell you what I think.
  • Matt 22:46 : 46 No one could answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 They must be silenced because they are upsetting whole households by teaching things they should not for the sake of dishonest gain.
  • Titus 2:8 : 8 Let your speech be sound and beyond reproach, so that any opponent may be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.
  • Job 8:2 : 2 How long will you continue to speak such things? Your words are like a mighty wind.

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    1Then Job answered and said,

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    2How long will you continue to speak such things? Your words are like a mighty wind.

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    14But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.

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