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!
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In Context
1Then Bildad the Shuhite spoke up and said,
3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
Cross References
Exodus 10:7Pharaoh's officials came to him and asked, “How long are you going to let this man cause us trouble? Let these people go so they can worship the Lord their God. Don't you realize that Egypt has been destroyed?”
Job 6:9that God would be willing to crush me to death, that he would just let me die!
Job 7:11So, no, I won't hold my tongue—I will speak in the agony of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 15:2“Would a wise man answer with such empty ‘knowledge’ that is just a lot of hot air?
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!
Proverbs 1:22“How long will you stupid people love stupidity? How long will scornful people enjoy their mocking? How long will 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 →