“ Shall vainb 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 onl...
Shall (a) vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? (a) Which serve for vain ostentation and for no true comfort.
Job has had enough of his tormenting comforters ( Job 16:2 f.). He could, if the positions were reversed, well enough offer them such mere verbal consolation (the stress in Job 16:5 is on mouth an...
Shall... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. vain words . empty words. Heb, words of wind. what... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? Vain words - Literally, words of air. What emboldeneth thee - Thou art totally ignorant of the business; what then can ind...
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 'Words of wind' (Hebrew). He retorts upon Eliphaz his reproach ( Job 15:2 ). Emboldeneth - What wearies (causes...
Job's Fourth Speech ( Job 16:17 ) See introductory remarks on Job 15-21. 1-5. Job retorts scornfully that he too could offer such empty 'comfort' if he were in the friends' place.
Shall vain words have an end? — The English idiom rather requires, “Shall not vain words have an end? for if not, what emboldeneth or provoketh thee that thou answerest?” Eliphaz had contributed...
XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again i...
Turning from “Miserable Comforters” unto God Job 16:1-22 With bitterness the sufferer turns from his comforters to God. As the r.v. makes clear, he says that if he were in their place and they...
Job immediately answered. His answer dealt less with the argument they suggested than before. While the darkness was still about him, and in some senses the agony of his soul was deepening, yet it is...
(3) Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? (4) I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake min...
Shall vain words have an end ?.... Or "words of wind" k, vain empty words, great swelling words of vanity, mere bubbles that look big, and have nothing in them; here Job retorts what Eliphaz had ins...
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? Ver. 3. Shall vain words have an end? ] Heb. Shall there be an end to words of wind? Ampullatur in arcto. Bubbles of w...
Shall vain words have an end? When wilt thou put an end to these impertinent discourses? He retorts upon him his charge, Job 15:2-3 . And what imboldeneth thee that thou answerest Namely, in suc...
JOB REPROVES THEIR HEARTLESSNESS (vv.1-5) Eliphaz had claimed to be giving Job "the consolations of God," and this moves Job to reply bitterly, "Miserable comforters are you all!" (v.2). Instead...
The Reply of Job to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I have heard...
When wilt thou put an end to these idle and impertinent discourses? He retorts upon him his charge against Job, Job 15:2,3 . That thou answerest, to wit, so or in such manner, so censoriously, a...
JOB’S SECOND REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Complains of the want of sympathy on the part of his friends ( Job 16:2-5 ). 1. They gave him only verses from the ancients about the punishment of the wicked...
Job 16:2 . Miserable comforters are ye all. The Vulgate, “burdensome comforters,” who afflicted instead of consoling their friend. Job 16:3 . Shall vain words have an end. He plainly tells Eli...
Miserable comforters are ye all. Miserable comforters They are but sorry comforters who, being confounded with the sight of the afflicted’s trouble, do grate upon their (real or supposed) guilt...
EXPOSITION Job answers the second speech of Eliphaz in a discourse which occupies two (short) chapters, and is thus not much more lengthy than the speech of his antagonist. His tone is very desp...
Job Complains of the Unmerciful Attitude of his Friends
Job 15:2 ; Job 20:3 ; Job 32:3-6 ; Job 6:26 ; Job 8:2 ; Matthew 22:46 ; Titus 1:11 ; Titus 2:8
End — When wilt thou put an end to these impertinent discourses? He retorts upon him his charge, Job 15:2-3 .