New International Version
Job 11:3
3Will your idle talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock?
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?
- 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?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Should I remain silent while you babble on? When you mock God, shouldn’t someone make you ashamed?
Context of Job 11:3
1Then Zophar the Naamathite replied: 2“Are all these words to go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated? Will your idle talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock? 4You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless and I am pure in your sight.’ 5Oh, how I wish that God would speak, that he would open his lips against you
Read all of Job 11Job 11:3 word by word
בַּ֭דֶּיךָ מְתִ֣ים יַחֲרִ֑ישׁו וַ֝תִּלְעַ֗ג וְאֵ֣ין מַכְלִֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 11:3
- Job 13:4You, however, smear me with lies; you are worthless physicians, all of you!
- Job 15:2“Would a wise person answer with empty notions or fill their belly with the hot east wind?
- Job 24:25“If this is not so, who can prove me false and reduce my words to nothing?”
- Job 12:4“I have become a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God and he answered— a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!
- Job 13:9Would it turn out well if he examined you? Could you deceive him as you might deceive a mortal?
- Job 17:2Surely mockers surround me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
- Job 34:7Is there anyone like Job, who drinks scorn like water?
- Psalms 35:16Like the ungodly they maliciously mocked; they gnashed their teeth at me.
- Jeremiah 15:17I never sat in the company of revelers, never made merry with them; I sat alone because your hand was on me and you had filled me with indignation.
- Jude 1:18They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.”
- Psalms 83:16Cover their faces with shame, Lord, so that they will seek your name.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:14Take special note of anyone who does not obey our instruction in this letter. Do not associate with them, in order that they may feel 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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