Job 11:2

World English Bible (2000)

"Shouldn't the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 18:2 : 2 "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
  • Acts 17:18 : 18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
  • Ps 140:11 : 11 An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
  • Job 8:2 : 2 "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
  • Job 16:3 : 3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

  • 3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

  • 3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

  • Job 20:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,

    2 "Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

  • Job 15:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

    2 "Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

    3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?

  • Job 18:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

    2 "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

  • Job 8:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

    2 "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

  • Job 4:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

    2 "If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

  • Job 40:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2 "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."

    3 Then Job answered Yahweh,

  • 20 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

  • 16 Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge."

  • Job 21:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

    4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

  • 32 If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you.

  • 14 How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

  • 14 for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches.

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

  • Job 6:25-26
    2 verses
    69%

    25 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

    26 Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

  • 19 In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

  • Eccl 5:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2 Don't be rash with your mouth, and don't let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

    3 For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool's speech with a multitude of words.

  • Job 22:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

    2 "Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

  • 3 If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.

  • 2 "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

  • 9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

  • 1 Then Job answered,

  • 2 "Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'

  • Job 33:12-13
    2 verses
    68%

    12 "Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

    13 Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?

  • 17 'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

  • 34 Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who hears me:

  • 3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

  • 5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

  • 7 Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

  • 7 I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'

  • Job 19:1-2
    2 verses
    67%

    1 Then Job answered,

    2 "How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

  • 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

  • 1 Then Job answered,

  • 1 Then Job answered,

  • 32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.