Verse 3

To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit in them?

Referenced Verses

• Job 13:4-5 : 4 And yet, ye `are' forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought -- all of you, 5 O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
• Job 16:2-3 : 2 I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters `are' ye all. 3 Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?
• Job 26:1-3 : 1 And Job answereth and saith: -- 2 What -- thou hast helped the powerless, Saved an arm not strong! 3 What -- thou hast given counsel to the unwise, And wise plans in abundance made known.
• Mal 3:13-15 : 13 Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: `What have we spoken against Thee?' 14 Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts? 15 And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.'
• Matt 12:36-37 : 36 `And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment; 37 for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'
• Col 4:6 : 6 your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.
• 1 Tim 6:4-5 : 4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings, 5 wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;