Job 16:3 Cross References - CAB

³ What! Is there any reason in vain words? Or what will hinder you from answering?

²⁶ Neither will your reproof cause me to cease my words, for neither will I endure the sound of your speech.

² How long will you speak these things, how long shall the breath of your mouth be abundant in words?

² Will a wise man give for answer a mere breath of wisdom? And does he fill up the pain of his belly,

³ I will hear my shameful reproach, and the spirit of my understanding answers me.

³ And he was also very angry with his three friends, because they were not able to return answers to Job, yet set him down for an ungodly man. ⁴ But Elihu had waited to give an answer to Job, because they were older than he was. ⁵ And Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, and he was angered in his wrath. ⁶ And Elihu the Buzite the son of Barachiel answered and said, I am younger in age, and you are older, therefore I kept silent, fearing to declare to you my own knowledge.

⁴⁶ And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him any longer.

¹¹ whom it is necessary to shut their mouths, who overturn whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.

⁸ sound speech that cannot be condemned, in order that the one who is an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.