Job 18:2
How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
In Context
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,
3Why are we counted as beasts, [and] have become unclean in your sight?
Cross References
Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell upon it. Let blackness come upon it.
Job 8:2How long will thou speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of thy mouth be [like] a mighty wind?
Job 13:5O that ye would altogether be silent! And it would be your wisdom.
Job 21:2Hear diligently my speech, And let this be your consolations.
Proverbs 18:13He who gives answer before he hears, it is folly and shame to him.
Matthew Henry on Job 18:2-5
Second Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak. 3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight? 4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? Bildad here shoots his arrows, even bitter words, against poor Job, little thinking that, though he was a wise and good man, in this instance he was… Read the whole commentary →