Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”
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Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”
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Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
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But Job doth open his mouth in vanity; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Cross-references (5)
Passages linked to Job 35:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Job 38:2 “Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
- Job 33:8-12 “Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying, ‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me. Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy. He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’ “Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.
- Job 34:35-37 ‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’ I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men. For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.”
- Job 3:1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
- Job 33:2 See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain For if he did punish thee as thou deservest,…
For if he did punish thee as thou deservest, thou shouldest not be able to open thy mouth.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 35:16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in…
Job 35:16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Ver. 16. Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain] Dilatat, divaricat, rictum diducit ut bellua. An open mouth is oft a purgatory to the master; digito compesce labellum.
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He multiplieth words without knowledge] Eliphaz had charged Job with malice and blasphemy, Job 22:1-30 Elihu, only with vanity and ignorance. We may not make the worst of things, but give a favourable interpretation.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Therefore; hence it is manifest.
Therefore; hence it is manifest.
Open his mouth in vain, i.e. pour forth his complaints without any success, and gets no ease by them.
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He multiplieth words without knowledge, thereby discovering his ignorance of God and of himself.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain,.... In…
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain,.... In uttering such unbecoming expressions, observed, and refuted, in his loud complaints of God, and of his dealings with him, and in defence of himself;
he multiplieth words without knowledge; both against God and in answer to others; being in a great measure ignorant of the nature and number of his sins, and of his afflictions; and of the end of God in them, and of the right he had to lay them upon him; us well as of his duty patiently to bear them, and trust in God, and wait his own time for deliverance out of them; and or the truth of this he was afterwards convinced, and acknowledged it, Job 42:3.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 16. Therefore doth Job open his mouth in…
Verse 16. Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain] God will execute vengeance when it may best serve the ends of his justice, providence, and mercy. The delay of judgment is not proof that it shall not be executed; nor is the deferring of mercy any proof that God has forgotten to be gracious.
He multiplieth words without knowledge] However this may apply to Job, it most certainly applies very strongly and generally to the words, not only of Job's three friends, but to those also of Elihu himself. The contest is frequently a strife of words.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Therefore - In view of all that Elihu had…
Therefore - In view of all that Elihu had now said, be came to the conclusion that the views of Job were erroneous, and that he had no just cause of complaint. He had suffered no more than he had deserved; he might have obtained a release or mitigation if he had applied to God; and the government of God was just, and was every way worthy of confidence. The remarks of Job, therefore, complaining of the severity of his sufferings and of the government of God, were not based on knowledge, and had in fact no solid foundation.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Knowledge. I have shewn that God punishes or rewards…
Knowledge. I have shewn that God punishes or rewards according to our deserts, and is not indifferent about our sins. If Job have not experienced the divine bounty, it is because he has not deserved it. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Apodosis to Job 35:15.
Apodosis to Job 35:15.
in vain--rashly.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; or,…
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; or, in vanity (comp. ver. 13). He multiplieth words without knowledge; i.e. he is bold to speak words that are vain and insensate, because God has not, as he might have done, punished him for his previous utterances.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 35:16 Elihu echoed his earlier accusation (34:35); later, God…
35:16 Elihu echoed his earlier accusation (34:35); later, God would agree (38:2).
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