Job 16:3

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?”

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BSBPD

“Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 16:3 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 6:26Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
  2. Job 8:2“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
  3. Job 15:2“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
  4. Job 20:3I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
  5. Job 27:12Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?
  6. Job 32:3and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
  7. Matthew 22:46No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.
  8. Titus 1:11who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.
  9. Titus 2:8and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

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