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

⁴ But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

⁵ Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

² "I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you all!

³ Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

¹ Then Job answered,

² "How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

³ How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!

¹³ "Your words have been stout against me," says Yahweh. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'

¹⁴ You 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 Yahweh of Hosts?

¹⁵ Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'

³⁶ I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

³⁷ For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."

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

⁴ he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,

⁵ constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.