Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

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

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 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 Should your lies make men silent? And will you mock and no one make you ashamed? 4 For you have said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in Your eyes.


Cross References

Job 17:2

Are not mockeries with me? Yea, my eye rests on their insults.

Job 12:4

I am a laughing-stock to his friends; who calls on God, and He answers him; the just, the upright one is a mockery;

Job 13:4

But you are imputers of lies; you are all worthless healers.

Job 13:9

Is it good that He should search you out? Or as one man mocks another, do you mock Him?

Job 15:2-3

Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Job 21:3

Rise with me and I shall speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.

Job 24:25

And if it is not so, who will make me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?

Job 34:7

What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water;

Psalm 35:16

with the hypocrites, mockers, for a cake, they gnashed on me with their teeth.

Psalm 83:16

Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O Jehovah.

Jeremiah 15:17

I did not sit in the circle of mockers, nor rejoice; I sat alone because of Your hand; for You have filled me with indignation.

2 Thessalonians 3:14

And if anyone does not obey our word by this letter, mark that one and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

Titus 2:8

in sound speech that cannot be condemned, that he who is opposed may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

Jude 1:18

because they told you that at the last time there will be mockers according to their lusts, leading ungodly lives.

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