Job 18:2
“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
World English Bible British
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,
3Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
Cross References
Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it.
Job 8:2“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
Job 13:5Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
Job 21:2“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
Proverbs 18:13He who answers before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.
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 →