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Job 11:3
3Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make [thee] ashamed?
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
1And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said, 2Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man of much talk be justified? Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one 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;
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בַּ֭דֶּיךָ מְתִ֣ים יַחֲרִ֑ישׁו וַ֝תִּלְעַ֗ג וְאֵ֣ין מַכְלִֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 11:3
- Job 13:4For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
- Job 15:2Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,
- Job 24:25If it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
- Job 12:4I am to be one that is a derision to his friend, I who call upon God, and whom he will answer: a derision is the just upright [man].
- Job 13:9Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?
- Job 17:2Are there not mockers around me? and doth [not] mine eye abide in their provocation?
- Job 34:7What man is like Job? he drinketh up scorning like water,
- Psalms 35:16With profane jesters for bread, they have gnashed their teeth against me.
- Jeremiah 15:17I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor exulted: I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.
- Jude 1:18that they said to you, that at [the] end of the time there should be mockers, walking after their own lusts of ungodlinesses.
- Psalms 83:16Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:14But if any one obey not our word by the letter, mark that man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed of himself;
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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