Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
Parallel translations
- WEB Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?
- BSB Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
- NKJV Should your empty talk make men hold their peace? And when you mock, should no one rebuke you?
- NASB “Shall your boasts silence people? And will you scoff, and no one rebuke?
- NLT Should I remain silent while you babble on? When you mock God, shouldn’t someone make you ashamed?
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Quick answer
Zophar charges that Job's boasts and mockery should not silence others or go unrebuked. He frames Job's defense as arrogant scoffing.
Overview
Zophar interprets Job's protests of innocence as boastful mockery deserving rebuke. He misreads Job's anguished honesty as pride. The misjudgment shows how easily we condemn a suffering brother's words; Scripture instead calls us to mourn with those who mourn and to be slow to accuse (Romans 12:15; James 1:19).
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- Job 17:2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
- Job 24:25And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
- Job 21:3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
- Ps 35:16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
- Jer 15:17I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
- 2 Th 3:14And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
- Job 34:7What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
- Titus 2:8Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
- Ps 83:16Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
- Job 13:4But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
- Job 12:4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
- Jude 1:18How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
- Job 13:9Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
- Job 15:2–3Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
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