Christian Standard Bible
Job 11:3
3Should your babbling put others to silence, so that you can keep on ridiculing with no one to humiliate you?
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 Zophar the Naamathite replied: 2Should this abundance of words go unanswered and such a talker be acquitted? Should your babbling put others to silence, so that you can keep on ridiculing with no one to humiliate you? 4You have said, “My teaching is sound, and I am pure in your sight.” 5But if only God would speak and open his lips against you!
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בַּ֭דֶּיךָ מְתִ֣ים יַחֲרִ֑ישׁו וַ֝תִּלְעַ֗ג וְאֵ֣ין מַכְלִֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 11:3
- Job 13:4You use lies like plaster; you are all worthless healers.
- Job 15:2Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill himself with the hot east wind?
- Job 24:25If this is not true, then who can prove me a liar and show that my speech is worthless?
- Job 12:4I am a laughingstock to my friends, by calling on God, who answers me. The righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock.
- Job 13:9Would it go well if he examined you? Could you deceive him as you would deceive a man?
- Job 17:2Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
- Job 34:7What man is like Job? He drinks derision like water.
- Psalms 35:16With godless mockery they gnashed their teeth at me.
- Jeremiah 15:17I never sat with the band of revelers, and I did not celebrate with them. Because your hand was on me, I sat alone, for you filled me with indignation.
- Jude 1:18They told you, “In the end time there will be scoffers living according to their own ungodly desires.”
- Psalms 83:16Cover their faces with shame so that they will seek your name, Lord.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:14If anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take note of that person; don’t associate with him, so 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
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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
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