Job 8:2
How long will thou speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of thy mouth be [like] a mighty wind?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, and said,
3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Cross References
Exodus 10:7And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve LORD their God. Do thou not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?
Job 6:9Even that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 7:11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 15:2Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
Job 18:2How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
Proverbs 1:22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?
Matthew Henry on Job 8:2-8
The Address of Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? 3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? 4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; 5 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; 6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the… Read the whole commentary →