Job 16:3

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 induce thee to take part in this discussion?

Related Commentaries of Job 16:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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....
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Shall... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. vain words . empty words. Heb, words of wind. what... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 'Words of wind' (Hebrew). He retorts upon Eliphaz his reproach ( J...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Shall vain words, etc.] i.e. 'will you never stop?'
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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,...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Reply of Job to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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,...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 16:2 . Miserable comforters are ye all. The Vulgate, “burdensome comforters,” who afflicted instead of consoling their friend. Job 16:3 . S...
The Biblical Illustrator

Miserable comforters are ye all. Miserable comforters They are but sorry comforters who, being confounded with the sight of the afflicted’s tro...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Complains of the Unmerciful Attitude of his Friends
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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?

Related Commentaries of Job 16:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 16:3