Job 16:3
HCSB


Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Is there no end to your empty words?
What provokes you that you continue testifying?

New American Standard Bible

“Is there no limit to windy words?
Or what plagues you that you answer?

King James Version

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

International Standard Version

Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing?

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?

Themes

Evil » Words evil words of men » Vain

Job » Lack of sympathy

Persecution » Instances of » Of job

Speaking » Folly in

Words » Evil » Vain

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Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Shall vain
H7307
רוּח 
Ruwach 
Spirit or spirit, wind, breath, side, mind, blast, vain, air, anger, cool, courage,
Usage: 378

words
H1697
דּבר 
Dabar 
word, thing, matter, acts, chronicles, saying, commandment,
Usage: 1438

have an end
H7093
קץ 
Qets 
end, after, border, infinite, process
Usage: 67

or what emboldeneth
H4834
מרץ 
Marats 
forcible, grievous, sore, embolden
Usage: 4

Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 16:3

Verse Info

Context Readings

Job's Fifth Speech

2 I have heard many things like these.
You are all miserable comforters.
 3 Is there no end to your empty words?
What provokes you that you continue testifying?
 4 If you were in my place I could also talk like you.
I could string words together against you
and shake my head at you.


Empty Words

Job

No

Cross References

Job 6:26

Do you think that you can disprove my words
or that a despairing man’s words are mere wind?

Job 15:2

Does a wise man answer with empty counsel
or fill himself with the hot east wind?

Job 8:2

How long will you go on saying these things?
Your words are a blast of wind.

Job 20:3

I have heard a rebuke that insults me,
and my understanding makes me reply.

Job 32:3-6

He was also angry at Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute him and yet had condemned him.

Matthew 22:46

No one was able to answer Him at all, and from that day no one dared to question Him anymore.

Titus 1:11

It is necessary to silence them; they overthrow whole households by teaching what they shouldn’t in order to get money dishonestly.

Titus 2:8

Your message is to be sound beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

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