New Living Translation
Job 11:3
3Should I remain silent while you babble on? When you mock God, shouldn’t someone make you 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
1Then Zophar the Naamathite replied to Job: 2“Shouldn’t someone answer this torrent of words? Is a person proved innocent just by a lot of talking? Should I remain silent while you babble on? When you mock God, shouldn’t someone make you ashamed? 4You claim, ‘My beliefs are pure,’ and ‘I am clean in the sight of God.’ 5If only God would speak; if only he would 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 13:4As for you, you smear me with lies. As physicians, you are worthless quacks.
- Job 15:2“A wise man wouldn’t answer with such empty talk! You are nothing but a windbag.
- Job 24:25Can anyone claim otherwise? Who can prove me wrong?”
- Job 12:4Yet my friends laugh at me, for I call on God and expect an answer. I am a just and blameless man, yet they laugh at me.
- Job 13:9What will happen when he finds out what you are doing? Can you fool him as easily as you fool people?
- Job 17:2I am surrounded by mockers. I watch how bitterly they taunt me.
- Job 34:7“Tell me, has there ever been a man like Job, with his thirst for irreverent talk?
- Psalms 35:16They mock me and call me names; they snarl at me.
- Jeremiah 15:17I never joined the people in their merry feasts. I sat alone because your hand was on me. I was filled with indignation at their sins.
- Jude 1:18They told you that in the last times there would be scoffers whose purpose in life is to satisfy their ungodly desires.
- Psalms 83:16Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O Lord.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:14Take note of those who refuse to obey what we say in this letter. Stay away from them so they will 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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