KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 16:2–3
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Job 16:2
2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
2I haue heard many such things: ‖*miserable comforters are ye all.
- Or, troublesome.
- Chap. 13.4.
Job 16:3
3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
3Shall †vaine words haue an ende? or what emboldeneth thee, that thou answerest?
- Heb. words of wind.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 16:2
A great number; numerous persons or things.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Of the kind, degree, or character already named or indicated.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Very unhappy from grief, pain, calamity, poverty, apprehension of evil, or other cause.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
comforters
Strength, relief, encouragement, or consolation in distress; also to strengthen, encourage, or console.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 16:3
Empty, worthless, fruitless, false, or without effect.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Spoken or written expressions; sayings, messages, commands, promises, or accounts.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The last or concluding part; a termination, limit, purpose, or result. As a verb, to cease or bring to a close.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
emboldeneth
Courageous, fearless, or confident enough to speak or act openly.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 2
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Open the full verse study4But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
5O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
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Open the full verse study19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
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Open the full verse study2Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
3Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
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Open the full verse study2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
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Open the full verse study2How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
3How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
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Open the full verse study25How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
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Open the full verse study6Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
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Open the full verse study16The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
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Open the full verse study26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
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Open the full verse study26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
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Open the full verse study2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
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Open the full verse study3I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
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Open the full verse study3Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
4Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.
5When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.
6And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.
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Open the full verse study2How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
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Open the full verse study46And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
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Open the full verse study11Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
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Open the full verse study8Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
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