Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

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

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?

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?

Julia Smith Translation

Shall thy empty talks cause men to be silent? and wilt thou deride and none making 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 "Shouldn't a multitude of words be answered, or a person who talks too much be vindicated? 3 Will your irrational babble silence people, and when you mock them, will you escape without being shamed? 4 You've said, "My teaching is flawless; I'm clean in God's sight.'


Cross References

Job 17:2

Mockers surround me; I cannot stop staring at their hostility all through the night.

Job 12:4

"I'm a laughingstock to my friends, someone who called on God. But then he answered this upright and blameless man, and I have become a laughingstock.

Job 13:4

"But as for you, you whitewash with lies; all of you are worthless quacks.

Job 13:9

Will things go well for you under his cross-examination? Can you lie to him, as you would to a human being?

Job 15:2-3

"Should a wise person respond with knowledge based on wind? Should he fill his stomach with a wind storm from the east?

Job 21:3

Bear with me and let me speak! Then, after I've spoken, you'll be free to mock me.

Job 24:25

If this weren't so, who can prove that I'm a liar by showing that there's nothing to what I'm saying?"

Job 34:7

"What man is like Job, who drinks mockery like water,

Psalm 35:16

Malicious mockers they gnashed their teeth against me.

Psalm 83:16

Fill their faces with shame until they seek your name, God.

Jeremiah 15:17

I didn't sit in the company of those who have fun, and I didn't rejoice. Because of your hand on me, I sat alone, for you filled me with indignation.

2 Thessalonians 3:14

If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of him. Have nothing to do with him so that he will feel ashamed.

Titus 2:8

Use wholesome speech that cannot be condemned. Then any opponent will be ashamed because he cannot say anything bad about us.

Jude 1:18

They kept telling you, "In the last times there will be mockers, following their own ungodly desires."

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