Job 18:2
How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 responded Bildad the Shuhite, and said:—
3Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes?
Cross References
Job 3:5Let darkness and death-shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day’s dark eclipse cause it terror:
Job 8:2How long wilt thou speak these things? Or, as a mighty wind, shall be the sayings of thy mouth?
Job 13:5Oh that ye would, altogether hold your peace, and it should serve you for wisdom!
Job 21:2Hear ye patiently my words, and let this be your consolation:
Proverbs 18:13He that answereth before he heareth, a folly, it is to him, and, a reproach.
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 →