Job 8:2
“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
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In Context
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Cross References
Exodus 10:7Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”
Job 6:9even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 7:11“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 15:2“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
Job 18:2“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
Proverbs 1:22“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
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 →