Job 18:2
When will ye at length put an end to words? Come to an understanding, and afterward let us speak.
Leeser Tanakh
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 answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,
3For what cause are we counted as beasts, reputed stupid your eyes?
Cross References
Job 3:5Oh that darkness and the shadow of death might defile it; may a cloud rest upon it; may the blackness of the day terrify it.
Job 8:2How long wilt thou speak these things? and [let] like a mighty wind be the words of thy mouth?
Job 13:5Oh, who would grant that ye might keep a profound silences! and it would he accounted unto you as wisdom.
Job 21:2Hear, O hear my speech, and let this be wherewith you give consolations.
Proverbs 18:13When one returneth an answer before he understandeth [the question], it is folly unto him 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 →