Job 18:2
“How long will you go on talking, hunting for the right words to say? Talk sense if you want us to reply!
Free Bible 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
1Then Bildad the Shuhite spoke up and said,
3Do you think we're dumb animals? Do we look stupid to you?
Cross References
Job 3:5Take it back, darkness and death-shadow. A black cloud should overshadow it. It should be as terrifying as the darkness of an eclipse during the day.
Job 8:2“How much longer will you go on talking like this? The words coming out of your mouth are a lot of hot air!
Job 13:5I wish you would all be quiet! That would be the wisest thing for you to do.
Job 21:2“Please listen carefully to what I say—that would be one comfort you could give me.
Proverbs 18:13Replying before hearing is stupidity and shame.
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 →