Job 16:3
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Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
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Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
No one was able to answer a word, and from that day on no one dared to question Him any further.
“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.
I have heard a rebuke that insults me, and my understanding prompts a reply.
and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.