约伯记 16:3
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
Context
This verse from 约伯记 Chapter 16 connects to 9 cross-references. 末底改和以斯帖将普珥节(以波斯语「普珥」即「抽签」命名,因哈曼曾抽签定灭绝犹大人的日期)定为永远的节日,在亚达月十四日和十五日庆祝;这节日因此成为以色列人世代欢庆的节日。
其他译本
Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?
Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?
May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
交叉参考
And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him …
And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore …
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong …
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil …
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.