Job 8:2
“How long will you say these things? 1 How long will the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? 1
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1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, 1
3Does God pervert justice? 1 Does the Almighty pervert righteousness? 1
Cross References
Exodus 10:7Pharaoh's servants said to him, “How long will this man be a menace to us? Let the Israelites go so that they may worship Yahweh their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is destroyed?”
Job 6:9that it would please God to crush me once, 1 that he would let loose his hand and cut me off from this life! 1
Job 7:11Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; 1 I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; 1 I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. 1
Job 15:2“Should a wise man answer with useless knowledge 1 and fill himself with the east wind? 1
Job 18:2“When will you stop your talk? 1 Consider, and afterwards we will speak. 1
Proverbs 1:22“How long, you naive people, will you love being naive? 1 How long, you mockers, will you delight in mockery, 1 and how long, you fools, will you hate knowledge? 1
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 →