Job 35:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So Job opens his mouth to no purpose; without knowledge he multiplies words.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 38:2 : 2 “Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?
  • Job 3:1 : 1 II. Job’s Dialogue With His Friends(3:1-27:33) Job Regrets His Birth After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.
  • Job 33:2 : 2 See now, I have opened my mouth; my tongue in my mouth has spoken.
  • Job 33:8-9 : 8 Elihu Rejects Job’s Plea of Innocence“Indeed, you have said in my hearing(I heard the sound of the words!): 9 ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity. 10 Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy! 11 He puts my feet in shackles; he watches closely all my paths.’ 12 Now in this, you are not right– I answer you, for God is greater than a human being.
  • Job 34:35-37 : 35 that Job speaks without knowledge and his words are without understanding. 36 But Job will be tested to the end, because his answers are like those of wicked men. 37 For he adds transgression to his sin; in our midst he claps his hands, and multiplies his words against God.”

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