Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



[Is there] a limit to windy words? What provokes you that you answer? Verse ConceptsToo Many Words

Then Job answered and said, "I have heard many [things] like these; all of you [are] {miserable comforters}. [Is there] a limit to windy words? What provokes you that you answer?

"But now [those] younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me, whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats. Moreover, {what use to me is the strength of their hands}? With them, vigor is destroyed. Through want and through barren hunger they are gnawing [in the] dry region [in the] darkness of desolation and waste. read more.
They are picking salt herbs, the leaves of bushes, and [the] roots of broom trees to warm themselves. They were driven out from fellow people; they shout at them as [at] a thief, {so that they dwell} [in] holes of [the] ground and [in the] rocks. They bray among [the] bushes; they are gathered under [the] nettles. {A senseless crowd}, yes, {a disreputable brood}, they were cast out from the land. "But now I am their mocking song, and I have become a byword for them. They abhor me; they keep aloof from me, and they do not withhold spit from my face

"But you {whitewash with lies}; all of you [are] {worthless healers}. {O that} you would keep completely silent, and [that] it would become wisdom for you. Please hear my argument, and listen attentively [to the] pleadings of my lips. read more.
"Will you speak falsely for God? And will you speak deceitfully for him? {Will you show partiality for him}? Or do you want to plead God's case? [Will it be] well, if he examines you? Or can you deceive him like deceiving a human being? "Surely he will rebuke you if {you show partiality} in secret. Will not his majesty terrify you, and his dread fall upon you? Your maxims [are] proverbs of ashes; your defenses [are] defenses of clay. "{Let me have silence}, and I myself will speak, and let come over me whatever [may].

Then Job answered and said, "I have heard many [things] like these; all of you [are] {miserable comforters}. [Is there] a limit to windy words? What provokes you that you answer? read more.
I myself also could talk as you, if {you were in my place}; I could join against you with words, and I could shake at you with my head.

{Surely} mockery [is] with me, and my eye {rests} on their provocation. Verse ConceptsMockerymockers

Then Job answered and said, "{How long} will you torment me and crush me with words? These ten times you have disgraced me; you are not ashamed [that] you have attacked me. read more.
And what is more, [if] I have truly erred, my error remains with me. If indeed you must magnify yourselves against me, and you must let my disgrace argue against me,

But I tell you that every worthless word that they speak, people will give an account for it on the day of judgment! For by your words you will be vindicated, and by your words you will be condemned."

The lips of a fool will bring strife, and his mouth calls out for a flogging. The mouth of a fool [is] ruin to him, and his lips [are] a snare to his soul.


For with many dreams [come] vanities and numerous words. Therefore, fear God! Verse ConceptsBad DreamsDaydreamingMan's Conduct Towards GodMisleading DreamsPeople Being SilentFear God!

[Like] a thorn that goes up in the hand of a drunkard, so [is] a proverb in the mouth of fools. Verse ConceptsProverbsWise Proverbsdrunkards




The heart of him who understands will seek knowledge, but the faces of fools, they will feed on folly. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfStudyKnowledgeSeeking For Abstract ThingsValuing Knowledge

He who returns a word before he will hear, folly itself [belongs] to him as well as shame. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfSpeech, Positive Aspects OfCounselingAnsweringDo Not Be RashDiplomacyDecision Makinganswers

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Those who are wise lay up knowledge, but [to] the mouth of the fool, ruin draws near. Verse ConceptsBabblingSpeech, Power And Significance OfThriftTroubleDestructionValuing KnowledgeStoring Other Things

The lips of the wise will spread knowledge, but the heart of fools, not so. Verse ConceptsLipsIntellectual KnowledgeValuing Knowledge


[Like] legs that hang limp from a lame person, so [is] a proverb in the mouth of fools. Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfLamenessLegsProverbsWise Proverbs


{O that} you would keep completely silent, and [that] it would become wisdom for you. Verse ConceptsSilenceHow Silence Is WiseMan's Wisdom

[Is there] a limit to windy words? What provokes you that you answer? I myself also could talk as you, if {you were in my place}; I could join against you with words, and I could shake at you with my head.

"Who [is] this darkening counsel by words without knowledge? Verse ConceptsAdvice, Rejecting God's AdviceThose Who Were Ignorant

Do not answer a fool according to his folly lest you become like him--even you. Verse ConceptsSpeech, Power And Significance OfLike Bad PeopleAnsweringFoolsChanging Yourselfanswers

Do not slander a servant to his master, or else he will curse you and you will be guilty. Verse ConceptsInjuryServanthood, In SocietySlanderSlavescriticismgossipingaccusations

He begins by saying what is foolish and ends by uttering what is wicked delusion. The fool {talks too much}, for no one knows what will be. Who can tell anyone what will happen {in the future}?

[Is there] a limit to windy words? What provokes you that you answer? Verse ConceptsToo Many Words