³ Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

⁴ But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.

⁵ Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.

² I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.

³ Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

¹ Then Job answered and said,

² How hast thou helped him that is without power! How hast thou saved the arm that hath no strength!

³ How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!

¹³ Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?

¹⁴ Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?

¹⁵ And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.

³⁶ And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

³⁷ For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

⁶ Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

⁴ he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

⁵ wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.