Job 8:21
He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, 1 your lips with shouting. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
In Context
20See, God will not cast away an innocent man; 1 neither will he take the hand of evildoers. 1
22Those who hate you will be clothed with shame; 1 the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
Cross References
Genesis 21:6Sarah said, “God has made me laugh; every one who hears will laugh with me.”
Nehemiah 12:43They offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy. Also the women and the children rejoiced. So the joy of Jerusalem could be heard far away.
Psalms 32:11Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous; 1 shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart.
Psalms 100:1Shout joyfully to Yahweh, all the earth. 1
Psalms 126:6He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, 1 will return again with shouts of joy, bringing his bundles of grain with him.
Luke 6:21Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for 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 →