Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Shall thy empty talks cause men to be silent? and wilt thou deride and none making ashamed?

New American Standard Bible

“Shall your boasts silence men?
And shall you scoff and none rebuke?

King James Version

Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

Holman Bible

Should your babbling put others to silence,
so that you can keep on ridiculing
with no one to humiliate you?

International Standard Version

Will your irrational babble silence people, and when you mock them, will you escape without being shamed?

A Conservative Version

Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mock, shall no man make thee ashamed?

American Standard Version

Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

Amplified


“Should your boasts and babble silence men?
And shall you scoff and no one put you to shame?

Bible in Basic English

Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

Darby Translation

Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make thee ashamed?

King James 2000

Should your lies make men hold their peace? and when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Should your loose talk put people to silence? {And when you mock, shall no one put you to shame}?

Modern King James verseion

Should your lies make men silent? And will you mock and no one make you ashamed?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Should men give ear unto thee only? Thou wilt laugh other men to scorn; and shall nobody mock thee again?

NET Bible

Will your idle talk reduce people to silence, and will no one rebuke you when you mock?

New Heart English Bible

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

The Emphasized Bible

Shall, thy pratings, cause men to hold their peace? When thou hast mocked, shall there be none to put thee to shame?

Webster

Should thy falsehoods make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

World English Bible

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

Youngs Literal Translation

Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּד 
Bad 
Usage: 5

חרשׁ 
Charash 
Usage: 74

men
מת 
Math 
Usage: 21

חרשׁ 
Charash 
Usage: 74

and when thou mockest
לעג 
La`ag 
Usage: 18

References

Easton

Man

Context Readings

Zophar's First Response To Job

2 Shall not the multitude of words be answered? and shall a man of lips be justified? 3 Shall thy empty talks cause men to be silent? and wilt thou deride and none making ashamed? 4 And thou wilt say, My instruction is pure, and I was clean in thine eyes.


Cross References

Job 17:2

If not mockings with me? and shall not mine eye lodge in their bitterness?

Job 12:4

I shall be he laughing at his neighbor, calling to God, and he will answer him: the just blameless one being laughed at

Job 13:4

And on the contrary, ye devise falsehood; physicians all of you for nothing.

Job 13:9

Is it good that he shall search you out?, or as he mocking against a man; will ye mock against him?

Job 15:2-3

Shall a wise one answer knowledge of wind, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Job 21:3

Suffer me and I will speak; and after my word ye will mock

Job 24:25

And if not now, who will cause me to lie, and set my words for nought?

Job 34:7

What man as Job he will drink scoffing as water?

Psalm 35:16

With profane mocking parasites, gnashing their teeth against me.

Psalm 83:16

Fill their face with contempt, and they shall seek thy name, O Jehovah.

Jeremiah 15:17

I sat not in the assembly of those mocking, and I will not exult; from the face of thy hand I sat alone, for thou didst fill me with anger.

2 Thessalonians 3:14

And if any listen not to our word by the epistle, mark him, and mix not together with him, that he may change.

Titus 2:8

The word sound, not to be condemned; that he from the opposite may be changed, having nothing bad to say of you.

Jude 1:18

For they said to you that in the last time shall be deceivers, going according to the eager desires of their impieties.

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