Job 16:3
Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
BSB
ASV
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
KJV
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Shall vain words? - Margin, As in Hebrew words of wind; that is, words which were devoid of thought-light, trifling. This is a retort on Eliphaz. He had charged Job Job 15:2-3 with uttering only such words. Such forms of expression are common in the East. “His promise, it is only wind.” “Breath, breath: all breath.” Roberts. Or what emboldeneth thee? - “What provokes or irritates thee, that thou dost answer in this manner?
He retorts upon Eliphaz his reproach (Job 15:2). emboldeneth--literally, "What wearies you so that ye contradict?" that is, What have I said to provoke you? &c. [SCHUTTENS].
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Job 6:26Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
leads to
“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.
Through
Job 8:2“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
leads to
“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
Then the LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Behold, the LORD is about to pass by.” And a great and mighty wind tore into the mountains and shattered…
Through
Job 20:3I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
leads to
My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.
I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,