Job 15:3

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:4-5 : 4 But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value. 5 Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
  • Job 16:2-3 : 2 "I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters! 3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
  • Job 26:1-3 : 1 Then Job answered, 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 plentifully declared sound knowledge!
  • Mal 3:13-15 : 13 "Your words have been stout against me," says Yahweh. "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 followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies? 15 Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'
  • Matt 12:36-37 : 36 I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will 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 conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions, 5 constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

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

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