Job 11:2

Should not the multitude of words Or, shall not…? Zophar probably did not demand the paroleimmediately on Job's ceasing to speak. A pause was allowed to intervene, and the words with which he commences form his apology for speaking he replies to Job only lest Job should fancy that by his much speaking he has shewn himself to be in the right, cf. Proverbs 10:19.

should a man full of talk Or, shalla man full of talk, lit. a man of lips. Zophar insinuates that Job's words come merely from his lips; they could not come, as the words of the ancients did, from the heart, ch. Job 8:10; they were mere empty phrases, cf. ch. Job 8:2; Isaiah 36:5. Job, it must be confessed, had made a long and in some parts vehement oration.