2 “Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?
Job 11:2
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Job 16:2–4
2 “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all. 3 Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying? 4 I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my h…
Job 24:24–25
24 They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain. 25 If this is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
Job 15:2–4
2 “Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind? 3 Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose? 4 But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.
Job 6:24–26
24 Teach me, and I will be silent. Help me understand how I have erred. 25 How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove? 26 Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
2 Esdras 4:17–19
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Acts 24:19–21
19 who ought to appear before you and bring charges, if they have anything against me. 20 Otherwise, let these men state for themselves any crime they found in me when I stood before the Sanhedrin, 21 unless it was this one thing I called out as I stood in their presenc…
Job 4:1–3
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: 2 “If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking? 3 Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
Job 26:3–5
3 How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight! 4 To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you? 5 The dead tremble— those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
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