Job 16:3 · KJV
“Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? {vain...: Heb. words of wind}”
— Job 16:3
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters {are} ye all. {miserable: or, troublesome}
I also could speak as ye {do}: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
Job 16 — Context
Then Job answered and said,
2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters {are} ye all. {miserable: or, troublesome}
3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? {vain...: Heb. words of wind}
4I also could speak as ye {do}: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
5{But} I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage {your grief}.
Cross References
Job 6:26
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, {which are} as wind?
Job 15:2
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? {vain...: Heb. knowledge of wind}
Titus 1:11
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
Job 20:3
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
Job 8:2
How long wilt thou speak these {things}? and {how long shall} the words of thy mouth {be like} a strong wind?
Job 32:3-6
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and {yet} had condemned Job.
Titus 2:8
Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.