Job 11:3 Cross References - CLV

³ Shall your inventions turn men to silence? And shall you keep deriding while there is no one criticizing?

⁴ As the sport of his associates am I becoming, Who was calling to Eloah, and He answered him, Made sport of, though righteous and flawless.

⁴ Howbeit, you are smearing with falsehood, Useless healers are all of you.

⁹ Would it be well if He were investigating you? Could you trifle with Him as one trifles with a mortal?

² Should a wise man answer with knowledge of wind? Or should he fill his belly with the hot east wind? ³ Ought he to plead with speech that is unprofitable, And with declarations that have no benefit in them?

² Assuredly, captious men are all around me, And my eye lodges all night upon their bitterness.

³ Bear with me while I am speaking, And after I have spoken, you may deride.

²⁵ But if not so, indeed who can prove me a liar Or establish my declaration as nothing?

⁷ What master is like Job? He drinks derision like water;

¹⁶ With the pollutions of derisive derisions, They gnashed their teeth against me."

¹⁶ Fill their faces with dishonor, So that men shall seek Your Name, O Yahweh."

¹⁷ I have not sat in an assembly of deriders, Nor do I exult, because of your hand, --Alone I have sat, For [with] indignation You have filled me."

¹⁴ Now if anyone is not obeying our word through this epistle, let it be a sign to you as to this man, not to commingle with him, that he may be abashed;"

⁸ with words sound, uncensurable, that the contrary one may be abashed, having nothing bad to say concerning us."

¹⁸ that they said to you, In the last time will be coming scoffers, going according to their own irreverent desires."