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Job 16:3
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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 16:3
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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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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