Job 8:21
While He fills your mouth with laughter, || And your lips with shouting,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
In Context
20Behold, God does not reject the perfect, || Nor takes hold on the hand of evildoers.
22Those hating you put on shame, || And the tent of the wicked is not!”
Cross References
Genesis 21:6and Sarah says, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who is hearing laughs for me.”
Nehemiah 12:43and they sacrifice on that day great sacrifices and rejoice, for God has made them rejoice [with] great joy, and also, the women and the children have rejoiced, and the joy of Jerusalem is heard—to a distance.
Psalms 32:11Be glad in YHWH, and rejoice, you righteous, || And sing, all you upright of heart!
Psalms 100:1A PSALM OF THANKSGIVING. Shout to YHWH, all the earth!
Psalms 126:6Whoever goes on and weeps, || Carrying the basket of seed, || Surely comes in with singing, carrying his sheaves!
Luke 6:21Blessed those hungering now—because you will be filled. Blessed those weeping now—because you will laugh.
Matthew Henry on Job 8:21-22
20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers: 21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing. 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought. Bildad here, in the close of his discourse, sums up what he has to say in a few words, setting before Job life and death, the blessing and the curse, assuring him that as he was so he should fare, and therefore they might conclude that as he fared so… Read the whole commentary →