Job 35:16

16 So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words.”

Job 35:16 in Other Translations

KJV
16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
ESV
16 Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge."
NLT
16 But you are talking nonsense, Job. You have spoken like a fool.”
MSG
16 "Job, you talk sheer nonsense - nonstop nonsense!"
CSB
16 Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.

Job 35:16 Meaning and Commentary

Job 35:16

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 ) .

Job 35:16 In-Context

14 How much less, then, will he listen when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him and you must wait for him,
15 and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.
16 So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words.”

Cross References 2

  • 1. Titus 1:10
  • 2. S Job 34:35,37; 1 Corinthians 4:20; Jude 1:10
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