Job 8:2
“Until when do you speak these things? And a strong wind—sayings of your mouth?
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
1And Bildad the Shuhite answers and says:
3Does God pervert judgment? And does the Mighty One pervert justice?
Cross References
Exodus 10:7And the servants of Pharaoh say to him, “Until when does this [one] become a snare to us? Send the men away, and they serve their God YHWH; do you not yet know that Egypt has perished?”
Job 6:9That God would please—and bruise me, || Loose His hand and cut me off!
Job 7:11Also I do not withhold my mouth—I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 15:2“Does a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill his belly [with] an east wind?
Job 18:2“When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.
Proverbs 1:22“Until when, you simple, do you love simplicity? And have scorners desired their scorning? And do 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 →