Job 8:2
“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
1Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
Cross References
Exodus 10:7Pharaoh’s officials asked him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is in ruins?”
Job 6:9that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
Job 7:11Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 15:2“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
Job 18:2“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.
Proverbs 1:22“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn 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 →