Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
New American Standard Bible
Or what plagues you that you answer?
King James Version
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Holman Bible
What provokes you that you continue testifying?
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?
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?
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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 before. What miserable comforters are you all! 3 Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer? 4 I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could pile up words against you and I could shake my head at you.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 6:26
Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?
Job 15:2
"Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?
Job 8:2
"How long will you speak these things, seeing that the words of your mouth are like a great wind?
Job 20:3
When I hear a reproof that dishonors me, then my understanding prompts me to answer.
Job 32:3-6
With Job's three friends he was also angry, because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job guilty.
Matthew 22:46
No one was able to answer him a word, and from that day on no one dared to question him any longer.
Titus 1:11
who must be silenced because they mislead whole families by teaching for dishonest gain what ought not to be taught.
Titus 2:8
and a sound message that cannot be criticized, so that any opponent will be at a loss, because he has nothing evil to say about us.