A moment in scripture
Job 16:3
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Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
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The surrounding passage
- 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.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.