10 “You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.[a]

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  1. Job 2:10 Lit sin with his lips

10 He replied, “You are talking like a foolish[a] woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”(A)

In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:10 The Hebrew word rendered foolish denotes moral deficiency.

10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

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26 Do you think that you can disprove my words
or that a despairing man’s words are mere wind?(A)

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26 Do you mean to correct what I say,
    and treat my desperate words as wind?(A)

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26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

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12 All of you have seen this for yourselves,
why do you keep up this empty talk?(A)

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12 You have all seen this yourselves.
    Why then this meaningless talk?

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12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

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