Job 8:21
even until your mouth is filled with laughter and your lips with rejoicing.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
In Context
20God will not discard the simple, nor will he extend his hand to the spiteful,
Cross References
Genesis 21:6And Sarah said: “God has brought laughter to me. Whoever will hear of it will laugh with me.”
Nehemiah 12:43On that day also, they enrolled men over the storehouses of the treasury, for the libations, and for the first-fruits, and for the tithes, so that the leaders of the city might bring these in, by them, with proper thanksgiving, for the priests and the Levites. For Judah was rejoicing in the priests and the Levites who were assisting.
Psalms 32:11But the counsel of the Lord remains for eternity, the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation.
Psalms 100:1A Psalm of David himself. I will sing mercy and judgment to you, O Lord. I will sing psalms.
Luke 6:21Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who are weeping now, for you shall laugh.
Matthew Henry on Job 8:21-22
20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers: 21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing. 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought. Bildad here, in the close of his discourse, sums up what he has to say in a few words, setting before Job life and death, the blessing and the curse, assuring him that as he was so he should fare, and therefore they might conclude that as he fared so… Read the whole commentary →