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Zophar Rebukes Job

Job 11:3

In 11 translations

BSB
Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
KJV
Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?lies: or, devices
WEB
Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?
ASV
Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
LSV
Your boastings make men keep silent, || You scorn, and none is causing blushing!
YLT
Thy devices make men keep silent, Thou scornest, and none is causing blushing!
DBY
Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make [thee] ashamed?
DRC
Shall men hold their peace to thee only? and when thou hast mocked others, shall no man confute thee?
GNV
Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? and when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed?
JPS
Thy boastings have made men hold their peace, and thou hast mocked, with none to make thee ashamed;
LXXE
Be not a speaker of many words; for is there none to answer thee?

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
בַּ֭דֶּיךָ מְתִ֣ים יַחֲרִ֑ישׁו וַ֝תִּלְעַ֗ג וְאֵ֣ין מַכְלִֽם׃BHS has been faithful to the Leningrad Codex where there might be a question of the validity of the form and we keep the same form as BHS.
LXX-Br
εὐλογημένος γεννητὸς γυναικὸς ὀλιγόβιος. Μὴ πολὺς ἐν ῥήμασι γίνου, οὐ γάρ ἐστιν ὁ ἀντικρινόμενός σοι;

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◆ Job's Trial

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 17:2Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
  • Job 15:2–3“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind? Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?
  • Jeremiah 15:17I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.
  • 2 Thessalonians 3:14Take note of anyone who does not obey the instructions we have given in this letter. Do not associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.
  • Job 21:3Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
  • Psalms 35:16Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
  • Psalms 83:16Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.
  • Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
  • Titus 2:8and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed to have nothing bad to say about us.
  • Job 24:25If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
  • Job 12:4I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
  • Job 13:4You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
  • Jude 1:18when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”
  • Job 13:9Would it be well when He examined you? Could you deceive Him like a man?

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