God’s Word Translation
Job 16:3
3Will ⌞your⌟ long-winded speeches never end? What disturbs you that you keep on answering ⌞me⌟?
Job 16:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
- New International Version (NIV)Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Context of Job 16:3
1Then Job replied ⌞to his friends⌟, 2“I have heard many things like this before. You are all pathetic at comforting me. Will ⌞your⌟ long-winded speeches never end? What disturbs you that you keep on answering ⌞me⌟? 4I, too, could speak like you if we could trade places. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you. 5I could encourage you with my mouth, and my quivering lips could ease ⌞your pain⌟.
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הֲקֵ֥ץ לְדִבְרֵי־ר֑וּחַ א֥וֹ מַה־יַּ֝מְרִֽיצְךָ֗ כִּ֣י תַעֲנֶֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 16:3
- Job 6:26Do you think my words need correction? Do you think they’re what a desperate person says to the wind?
- Job 8:2“How long will you say these things? How long will your words be so windy?
- Job 15:2“Should a wise person answer with endless details and fill his stomach with the east wind?
- Job 20:3I have heard criticism that makes me ashamed, but a spirit beyond my understanding gives me answers.
- Job 32:3Elihu was also very angry with Job’s three friends because they had found no answer. They made it look as if God were wrong.
- Matthew 22:46No one could answer him, and from that time on no one dared to ask him another question.
Commentaries on Job 16:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Vain words - Literally, words of air. What emboldeneth thee - Thou art totally ignorant of the business; what then can induce thee to take part in this discussion?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Shall vain words? - Margin, As in Hebrew words of wind; that is, words which were devoid of thought-light, trifling. This is a retort on Eliphaz. He had charged Job Job 15:2-3 with uttering only such words. Such forms of expression are common in the East. “His promise, it is only wind.” “Breath, breath: all breath.” Roberts. Or what emboldeneth thee? - “What provokes or irritates thee, that thou dost answer in this manner? What have I said, that has given…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. "Words of wind," Hebrew. He retorts upon Eliphaz his reproach (Job 15:2). emboldeneth--literally, "What wearies you so that ye contradict?" that is, What have I said to provoke you? &c. [Schuttens]. Or, as better accords with the first clause, "Wherefore do ye weary yourselves contradicting?" [Umbreit].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 16
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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