Parallel Verses

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?

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 Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified? 3 “Shall your boasts silence men?
And shall you scoff and none rebuke?
4 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean before thine eyes.

Cross References

Job 17:2

Now there are only mockers with me, upon whose bitterness my eye continues to gaze.

Job 12:4

He who invokes God and he answers him is mocked by his friend; the just and perfect man is laughed to scorn.

Job 13:4

That ye are certainly forgers of lies; ye are all physicians of no value.

Job 13:9

Would it be good for him to search you out? As one man mocks another, do ye so mock him?

Job 15:2-3

Should a wise man utter vain knowledge and fill his belly with the east wind?

Job 21:3

Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.

Job 24:25

And if it is not so now, who will make me a liar or reduce my speech to nothing?

Job 34:7

What man is like Job, who drinks up the scorn like water?

Psalm 35:16

With immature hypocritical mockers, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Psalm 83:16

Fill their faces with shame that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

Jeremiah 15:17

I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers, nor did I become puffed up by reason of thy prophecy; I sat alone because thou hast filled me with indignation.

2 Thessalonians 3:14

And if anyone does not hearken unto our word by this epistle, note that one and do not join with him, that he may be ashamed.

Titus 2:8

sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that the adversary may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

Jude 1:18

how that they told you, That in the last time there would be mockers, who would walk after their own ungodly desires.

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