EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 11:3
3Your proud words will not cause other people to say nothing. We must make you ashamed when you laugh at us.
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
1Job's friend Zophar, who came from Naamah, decided to speak. He said this to Job: 2‘Someone must answer all these words that you have spoken. You have talked a lot, but that does not mean that you are right. Your proud words will not cause other people to say nothing. We must make you ashamed when you laugh at us. 4You have said, “The things that I teach are true. God knows that I am a good man.” 5So God himself should answer you. He should tell you what he thinks.
Read all of Job 11Job 11:3 word by word
בַּ֭דֶּיךָ מְתִ֣ים יַחֲרִ֑ישׁו וַ֝תִּלְעַ֗ג וְאֵ֣ין מַכְלִֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 11:3
- Job 13:4What you say about me is only lies. You would be useless as doctors.
- Job 15:2‘If you were wise, you would not answer us with such silly ideas. The words that come out from inside you are only a hot wind!
- Job 24:25What I have said is true. Nobody can say that I am telling lies. You cannot think that my words are useless.’
- Job 12:4I am a person who prayed to God and he answered me. But my friends now laugh at me. I have always lived completely in the right way. But still my friends laugh at me.
- Job 13:9If God asks you questions, would he find that you speak the truth? Or would you try to deceive him, as you deceive other people?
- Job 17:2All around me, people are laughing at me. I have to watch them as they insult me.
- Job 34:7There has never been a man like Job! He laughs at God as easily as he drinks water.
- Psalms 35:16Useless people like that insulted me, and they showed their teeth to frighten me.
- Jeremiah 15:17When people were enjoying wild parties, I did not join with them. I sat alone, because you held me. You caused me to be angry with those people.
- Jude 1:18They said to you, ‘In the last days of this world, some people will laugh at God's message. They will say that it is silly to obey God. Instead, they will do the bad things that they want to do. Those things do not please God.’
- Psalms 83:16Cause them to be very ashamed, Lord, so that they might turn to you.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:14Maybe someone among you will not obey the message that we have written in this letter. Make sure that everyone knows about someone like that. Do not be friends with him, so that he may become 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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