Job 11:3

Will your idle talk ¹  reduce people to silence, ²  and will no one rebuke ³  you when you mock? ⁴ 

Job 12:4; Job 13:4; Job 13:9; Job 15:2,3; Job 17:2; Job 24:25; Job 34:7; Ps 35:16; Ps 83:16; Jer 15:17; 2Th 3:14; Tit 2:8; Jude 1:18

¹ tn The word means “chatter, pratings, boastings” (see Isa 16:6; Jer 48:30).

² tn The verb חָרַשׁ (kharash) in the Hiphil means “to silence” (41:4); here it functions in a causative sense, “reduce to silence.”

³ tn The form מַכְלִם (makhlim, “humiliating, mocking”) is the Hiphil participle. The verb כָּלַם (kalam) has the meaning “cover with shame, insult” (Job 20:3).

⁴ tn The construction shows the participle to be in the circumstantial clause: “will you mock – and [with] no one rebuking.”