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Job 11:3

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11:3Will your idle talk6 reduce people to silence,7

and will no one rebuke8 you when you mock?9

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Footnotes

  1. 6 The word means “chatter, pratings, boastings” (see Isa 16:6; Jer 48:30).
  2. 7 The verb חָרַשׁ (kharash) in the Hiphil means “to silence” (41:4); here it functions in a causative sense, “reduce to silence.”
  3. 8 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. 9 The construction shows the participle to be in the circumstantial clause: “will you mock—and [with] no one rebuking.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Should your babble silence men,

and when you mock, shall no one shame you?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Will your idle talk reduce others to silence?

Will no one rebuke you when you mock?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Should your babbling put others to silence,

so that you can keep on ridiculing

with no one to humiliate you?

NLTNew Living Translation

Should I remain silent while you babble on?

When you mock God, shouldn’t someone make you ashamed?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Should your loose talk put people to silence?

And when you mock, shall no one put you to shame?

KJV 1900King James Version

Should thy lies make men hold their peace?

And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?