Shall [a]words of wind have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?

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  1. Job 16:3 Empty words

Will your long-winded speeches never end?(A)
    What ails you that you keep on arguing?(B)

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26 Do you intend to rebuke my words,
And the speeches of a desperate one, which are as wind?

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26 Do you mean to correct what I say,
    and treat my desperate words as wind?(A)

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“Should a wise man answer with empty knowledge,
And fill [a]himself with the east wind?

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  1. Job 15:2 Lit. his belly

“Would a wise person answer with empty notions
    or fill their belly with the hot east wind?(A)

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sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of [a]you.

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  1. Titus 2:8 NU, M us

and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.(A)

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11 whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, (A)for the sake of dishonest gain.

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11 They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households(A) by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain.

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46 (A)And no one was able to answer Him a word, (B)nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.

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46 No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.(A)

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Also against his three friends his wrath was aroused, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Now because they were years older than he, Elihu had waited [a]to speak to Job. When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was aroused.

So Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, answered and said:

“I am (A)young in years, and you are very old;
Therefore I was afraid,
And dared not declare my opinion to you.

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  1. Job 32:4 Vg. till Job had spoken

He was also angry with the three friends,(A) because they had found no way to refute Job,(B) and yet had condemned him.[a](C) Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job because they were older than he.(D) But when he saw that the three men had nothing more to say, his anger was aroused.

So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said:

“I am young in years,
    and you are old;(E)
that is why I was fearful,
    not daring to tell you what I know.

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  1. Job 32:3 Masoretic Text; an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition Job, and so had condemned God

I have heard the rebuke [a]that reproaches me,
And the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.

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  1. Job 20:3 Lit. of my insulting correction

I hear a rebuke(A) that dishonors me,
    and my understanding inspires me to reply.

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“How long will you speak these things,
And the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

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“How long will you say such things?(A)
    Your words are a blustering wind.(B)

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