Job 11:3

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

biblegateway Job 11:3

Will your idle talk reduce men to silence? Will no-one rebuke you when you mock?

biblegateway Job 11:3

"Shall your boasts silence men? And shall you scoff and none rebuke?

biblegateway Job 11:3

Should I remain silent while you babble on? When you mock God, shouldn’t someone make you ashamed?

biblegateway Job 11:3

Job, do you think you can carry on like this and we'll say nothing? That we'll let you rail and mock and not step in?

SABDAweb Job 11:3

Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

bibleoremus Job 11:3

Should your babble put others to silence, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?

biblegateway Job 11:3

Should your empty talk make men hold their peace? And when you mock, should no one rebuke you?

biblegateway Job 11:3

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

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.”