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Job 16:3 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? "

Job 16:3

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1 Then Job answered and said,

2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

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 mine head at you.

5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

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From This Chapter

Job 16:1

"Then Job answered and said,"

Job 16:2

"I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all."

Job 16:4

"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 mine head at you."

Job 16:5

"But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief."

Job 16:6

"Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?"

Job 16:7

"But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company."

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