Job 16:3

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:26 : 26 Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
  • Job 15:2 : 2 "Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
  • Job 20:3 : 3 I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
  • Job 32:3-6 : 3 Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. 4 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he. 5 When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled. 6 Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn't dare show you my opinion.
  • Matt 22:46 : 46 No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forth.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.
  • Titus 2:8 : 8 and soundness of speech that can't be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.
  • Job 8:2 : 2 "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

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