Job 16:3 Cross References - NSB

³ »Is there no limit to windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?

²⁶ »Do you mean to correct what I say? Do you treat the words of a despairing man as wind?

² »How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind.

² »Should a wise man answer with empty notions or be filled with the hot east wind?

³ »I hear a rebuke that dishonors me. Therefore my understanding inspires me to reply.

³ He was angry also with Job’s three friends because they found no answer, though they had declared Job to be in the wrong. ⁴ Elihu waited to speak to Job, because they were older than he. ⁵ When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouths of these three men, he became angry. ⁶ Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answered: »I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.

⁴⁶ No one was able to answer him. After that they asked no more questions.

¹¹ They must be stopped. Their mouths must be shut up, for they subvert entire households. They teach things that should not be taught, for the sake of dishonest gain.

⁸ Have sound speech that cannot be condemned so the man opposing us may be ashamed and have nothing bad to say about us.