Job 18:2
How long wilt thou continue? 1 Forbear, that we also may speak. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, 1
3For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes? 1
Cross References
Job 3:5But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; 1 Let blackness come upon it; 1
Job 8:2How long wilt thou speak these things, 1 How long shall the breath of thy mouth be abundant in words? 1
Job 13:5But would that ye were silent, 1 And it would be wisdom to you in the end. 1
Job 21:2Hear ye, hear ye my words, 1 That I may not have this consolation from you. 1
Proverbs 18:13Whoso answers a word before he hears a cause, 1 It is folly and reproach to him. 1
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 →