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
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....
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 co...
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 t...
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 'Words of wind' (Hebrew). He retorts upon Eliphaz his reproach ( J...
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 'comfor...
Shall vain words, etc.] i.e. 'will you never stop?'
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 t...
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...
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...
Job immediately answered. His answer dealt less with the argument they suggested than before. While the darkness was still about him, and in some sen...
(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...
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 noth...
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...
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 im...
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,...
The Reply of Job to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. ...
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,...
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 fro...
Job 16:2 . Miserable comforters are ye all. The Vulgate, “burdensome comforters,” who afflicted instead of consoling their friend. Job 16:3 . S...
Miserable comforters are ye all. Miserable comforters They are but sorry comforters who, being confounded with the sight of the afflicted’s tro...
EXPOSITION Job answers the second speech of Eliphaz in a discourse which occupies two (short) chapters, and is thus not much more lengthy than t...
Job Complains of the Unmerciful Attitude of his Friends
Shall vain, windy, empty, words have an end? It was about time that they brought something more substantial if they intended to comfort him. Or wh...
End — When wilt thou put an end to these impertinent discourses? He retorts upon him his charge, Job 15:2-3 .
3 Shall vainb words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?