Job 16:3

16:3 Will there be an end to your windy words?

Or what provokes you that you answer?


tn Disjunctive questions are introduced with the sign of the interrogative; the second part is introduced with אוֹ (’o, see GKC 475 §150.g).

tn In v. 3 the second person singular is employed rather than the plural as in vv. 2 and 4. The singular might be an indication that the words of v. 3 were directed at Eliphaz specifically.

tn Heb “words of wind.”

tn The Hiphil of מָרַץ (marats) does not occur anywhere else. The word means “to compel; to force” (see 6:25).

tn The LXX seems to have gone a different way: “What, is there any reason in vain words, or what will hinder you from answering?”