Job 16:3

3 Will
Disjunctive questions are introduced with the sign of the interrogative; the second part is introduced with אוֹ (’o, see GKC 475 #150.g).
there be an end to your
In v. 3 the second person singular is employed rather than the plural as in vv. 2 and 4. The singular might be an indication that the words of v. 3 were directed at Eliphaz specifically.
windy words?
Heb “words of wind.”

Or what provokes
The Hiphil of מָרַץ (marats) does not occur anywhere else. The word means “to compel; to force” (see 6:25).
you that you answer?
The LXX seems to have gone a different way: “What, is there any reason in vain words, or what will hinder you from answering?”

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