Job 18:2
How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak.
Catholic Public Domain 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
1But Baldad the Suhite responded by saying:
3Why have we been treated like mules, as if we were unworthy before you?
Cross References
Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death obscure it, let a fog overtake it, and let it be enveloped in bitterness.
Job 8:2How long will you speak this way, so that the words of your mouth are like a changeable wind?
Job 13:5And I wish that you would remain silent, so that you would be counted among the wise.
Job 21:2I beseech you to hear my words and to do penance.
Proverbs 18:13Whoever responds before he listens, demonstrates himself to be foolish and deserving of confusion.
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 →