Job 11:3

Job 11:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
• New International Version (NIV)Will your idle talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Should your empty talk make men hold their peace? And when you mock, should no one rebuke you?

Context of Job 11:3

1Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said, 2Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified? Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? 4For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in thine eyes. 5But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against thee,

Job 11:3 word by word

בַּ֭דֶּיךָ מְתִ֣ים יַחֲרִ֑ישׁו וַ֝תִּלְעַ֗ג וְאֵ֣ין מַכְלִֽם׃Read the interlinear

• ashamedכָּלַםkâlam · be humiliatedH3637

Cross-references for Job 11:3

• Job 13:4But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.
• Job 15:2Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
• Job 24:25And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?
• Job 12:4I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
• Job 13:9Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?
• Job 17:2Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.
• Job 34:7What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,
• Psalms 35:16Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.
• Jeremiah 15:17I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.
• Jude 1:18that they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.
• Psalms 83:16Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
• 2 Thessalonians 3:14And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

Commentaries on Job 11:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Should thy lies make men hold their peace? - This is a very severe reproof, and not justified by the occasion. And when thou mockest - As thou despisest others, shall no man put thee to scorn? Zophar could never think that the solemn and awful manner in which Job spoke could be called bubbling, as some would translate the term לעג laag . He might consider Job's speech as sarcastic and severe, but he could not consider it as nonsense.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Should thy lies - Margin, “devices.” Rosenmuller renders this, “should men bear thy boastings with silence?” Dr. Good, “before thee would man-kind keep silence?” Vulgate, “tibi soli tacebunt homines?” “Shall men be silent before thee alone? The Septuagint tenders the whole passage, “he who speaketh much should also hear in turn; else the fine speaker ( ̓́ eulalos ) thinketh himself just. - Blessed be the short-lived offspring of woman. Be not profuse of…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-3This stream of words: Those who are foolish and those who sin often talk too much, but Job was innocent (Proverbs 10:8, 14; Proverbs 10:19). Will you scoff without rebuke?: Zophar thought Job's comments were full of sin because he was making fun of God's justice (Job 10:2–7, 13–15).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. lies--rather, "vain boasting" (Is 16:6; Jr 48:30). The "men" is emphatic; men of sense; in antithesis to "vain boasting." mockest--upbraidest God by complaints, "shall no man make thee ashamed?"Read the comment

Topics related to Job 11:3

• Uncharitableness

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• Confess
• Deserve
• Man
• Measure
• Mock
• Suit
• Talk
• Christianity
• Peace
• Zophar

Commentaries on Job 11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings