Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing?
New American Standard Bible
Or what plagues you that you answer?
King James Version
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Holman Bible
What provokes you that you continue testifying?
A Conservative Version
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes thee that thou answer?
American Standard Version
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
Amplified
“Is there no end to [your futile] words of wind?
Or what plagues you [so much] that you [so boldly] answer [me like this]?
Bible in Basic English
May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
Darby Translation
Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
Julia Smith Translation
Was there an end to words of wind? or what will provoke thee that thou wilt answer?
King James 2000
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldens you that you answer?
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Is there] a limit to windy words? What provokes you that you answer?
Modern King James verseion
Shall words of wind have an end? Or what provokes you that you should answer?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Shall not thy vain words come yet to an end? Or, hast thou yet any more to say?
NET Bible
Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
New Heart English Bible
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
The Emphasized Bible
Is there to be an end to windy words? Or what so strongly exciteth thee, that thou must respond?
Webster
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
World English Bible
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Youngs Literal Translation
Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 16:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fifth Speech
2 "I've heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are! 3 Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing? 4 "I could also talk like you if only you were in my place! Then I would put together an argument against you. I would shake my head at you
Phrases
Cross References
Job 6:26
Did you intend your words to reprove, even though the speech of a desperate person is just wind?
Job 15:2
"Should a wise person respond with knowledge based on wind? Should he fill his stomach with a wind storm from the east?
Job 8:2
"How long will you keep talking like this? How long will you keep talking like a wind storm?
Job 20:3
Whenever I hear an insulting rebuke, I respond from my spirit because I understand."
Job 32:3-6
Furthermore, he was furious with his three friends because they had not answered Job, but instead had condemned him.
Matthew 22:46
No one could answer him at all, and from that day on no one dared to ask him another question.
Titus 1:11
They must be silenced, because they are the kind of people who ruin whole families by teaching what they should not teach in order to make money in a shameful way.
Titus 2:8
Use wholesome speech that cannot be condemned. Then any opponent will be ashamed because he cannot say anything bad about us.