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King James Version

Job 35:16

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
But you are talking nonsense, Job. You have spoken like a fool."
English Revised Version
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vanity; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Update Bible Version
Therefore Job opens his mouth in vanity; He multiplies words without knowledge.
New Century Version
So Job is only speaking nonsense, saying many words without knowing what is true."
New English Translation
So Job opens his mouth to no purpose; without knowledge he multiplies words."
Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
World English Bible
Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, And he multiplies words without knowledge."
Amplified Bible
Job uselessly opens his mouth And multiplies words without knowledge [drawing the worthless conclusion that the righteous have no more advantage than the wicked]."
English Standard Version
Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Joob openith his mouth in veyn, and multiplieth wordis with out kunnyng.
Berean Standard Bible
So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge."
Contemporary English Version
Everything you have said adds up to nonsense.
American Standard Version
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vanity; He multiplieth words without knowledge.
Bible in Basic English
And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.
Complete Jewish Bible
So Iyov is being futile when he opens his mouth; he is piling up words without knowledge."
Darby Translation
For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge.
Easy-to-Read Version
So he continues his worthless talking. Everything he has said shows he does not know what he is talking about."
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But Job doth open his mouth in vanity; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
King James Version (1611)
Therefore doeth Iob open his mouth in vaine: he multiplieth words without knowledge.
New Life Bible
Job opens his mouth with empty talk. He speaks many words without much learning."
New Revised Standard
Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therfore Iob openeth his mouth in vaine, and multiplieth wordes without knowledge.
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore Job has spoken in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
Good News Translation
It is useless for you to go on talking; it is clear you don't know what you are saying.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus, Job, vainly openeth his mouth, Without knowledge, he multiplieth words.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words without knowledge.
Revised Standard Version
Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge."
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therefore doth Iob open his mouth but in vaine, & he maketh many wordes without knowledge.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Yet Job vainly opens his mouth, in ignorance he multiplies words.
Christian Standard Bible®
Job opens his mouth in vainand multiplies words without knowledge.
Hebrew Names Version
Therefore Iyov opens his mouth with empty talk, And he multiplies words without knowledge."
Lexham English Bible
therefore Job opens his mouth in empty talk— without knowledge he multiplies words."
Literal Translation
even Job vainly opens his mouth; he multiplies words without knowledge.
Young's Literal Translation
And Job [with] vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore hath Iob opened his mouth but in vayne, ad folishly hath he made so many wordes.
THE MESSAGE
"Job, you talk sheer nonsense— nonstop nonsense!"
New American Standard Bible
So Job opens his mouth with empty words; He multiplies words without knowledge."
New King James Version
Therefore Job opens his mouth in vain; He multiplies words without knowledge."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Job opens his mouth emptily; He multiplies words without knowledge."
Legacy Standard Bible
So Job opens his mouth vainly;He multiplies words without knowledge."

Contextual Overview

14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him. 15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity: 16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 3:1, Job 33:2, Job 33:8-12, Job 34:35-37, Job 38:2

Reciprocal: Job 9:20 - mine Job 13:2 - General Job 16:4 - up words Job 34:37 - multiplieth Ecclesiastes 10:14 - is full of words Ezekiel 35:13 - have multiplied

Cross-References

Genesis 3:16
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Genesis 35:19
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
Genesis 48:7
And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
Ruth 1:2
And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
2 Kings 5:19
And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
1 Chronicles 2:19
And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur.
Psalms 132:6
Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.
Micah 5:2
But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Matthew 2:1
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore - In view of all that Elihu had now said, be came to the conclusion that the views of Job were erroneous, and that he had no just cause of complaint. He had suffered no more than he had deserved; he might have obtained a release or mitigation if he had applied to God; and the government of God was just, and was every way worthy of confidence. The remarks of Job, therefore, complaining of the severity of his sufferings and of the government of God, were not based on knowledge, and had in fact no solid foundation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 35:16. Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain — God will execute vengeance when it may best serve the ends of his justice, providence, and mercy. The delay of judgment is not proof that it shall not be executed; nor is the deferring of mercy any proof that God has forgotten to be gracious.

He multiplieth words without knowledge — However this may apply to Job, it most certainly applies very strongly and generally to the words, not only of Job's three friends, but to those also of Elihu himself. The contest is frequently a strife of words.


 
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