Job 35:16

16 Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he ¹multiplies words ²without 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 when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!

15 And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not take much note of transgression,

16 Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge."

Cross References

• 1. Job 34:37
• 2. Job 34:35; Job 36:12; Job 38:2; Job 42:3