Job 16:3

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

Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?

"How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?

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

I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.

He burned with anger also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.

They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.

and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.