Job 18:2
“When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.
Literal Standard 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
1And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:
3Why have we been reckoned as livestock? We have been defiled in your eyes!
Cross References
Job 3:5Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, || Let a cloud dwell on it, || Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.
Job 8:2“Until when do you speak these things? And a strong wind—sayings of your mouth?
Job 13:5O that you would keep perfectly silent, || And it would be to you for wisdom.
Job 21:2“Hear my word diligently, || And this is your consolation.
Proverbs 18:13Whoever is answering a matter before he hears, || It is folly to 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 →