Job 16:3

“Will there be an end to words of wind? Or what provokes you that you answer?”

Job 16:3 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Job 16:3, word by word

Will there be an endקֵץkets

end

What comes when something finishes: "some days later".

Where else “kets” appears
to wordsדִבְרֵיdivre

word

What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.

Where else “divre” appears
of windרוּחַruach

wind

Moving air; also the four quarters of the horizon.

Where else “ruach” appears
provokes youיַּמְרִיצְyamrits

be grievous, sharp

Be strong, harsh, wounding; said of words or a curse that hurt (1 Kings 2:8), and of what irritates or provokes.

Where else “yamrits” appears
you answerתַעֲנֶהtaane

answer

To reply to what was said.

Where else “taane” appears

The context

2“I have heard many things like these; comforters of suffering are you all.

3 · This verse (above)

4I also could speak like you, if your soul were in place of my soul; I could string together words against you, and shake my head at you.

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