Job 15:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

Should he argue with unprofitable talk, or with speeches that do no good?

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  • Job 13:4-5 : 4 But you are forgers of lies, you are all worthless physicians. 5 Oh that you would altogether hold your peace, and it should be your wisdom.
  • Job 16:2-3 : 2 I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all. 3 Will vain words ever end? Or what makes you bold enough to answer?
  • Job 26:1-3 : 1 But Job answered and said, 2 How have you helped him who is without power? How have you saved the arm that has no strength? 3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom? And how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?
  • Mal 3:13-15 : 13 Your words have been harsh against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'. 14 You have said, 'It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?'. 15 And now we call the proud blessed; yes, those who do wickedness are raised up; yes, those who test God go free.
  • Matt 12:36-37 : 36 But I say to you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account for in the day of judgment. 37 For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.
  • Col 4:6 : 6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
  • 1 Tim 6:4-5 : 4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, 5 Useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.

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    6Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

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    13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

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    9What profit does he have who works in that which he labors?

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