Job 8:2
How long will you speak this way, so that the words of your mouth are like a changeable wind?
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In The King James Version
In Context
1But Baldad the Suhite, responding, said:
3Does God supplant judgment, or does the Almighty subvert that which is just?
Cross References
Exodus 10:7Then the servants of Pharaoh said to him: “How long must we endure this scandal? Release the men, in order to sacrifice to the Lord their God. Do you not see that Egypt is perishing?”
Job 6:9and that he who, at first, had crushed me, will let loose his hand and cut me down?
Job 7:11And because of this, I will not restrain my mouth. I will speak in the affliction of my spirit. I will converse from the bitterness of my soul.
Job 15:2Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking wind, and will he fill his stomach with fire?
Job 18:2How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak.
Proverbs 1:22“Little ones, how long will you choose to be childish, and how long will the foolish desire what is harmful to themselves, and how long will the imprudent 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 →