Job 8:2
How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
1Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
3Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice?
Cross References
Exodus 10:7And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: know you not yet that Egypt is destroyed?
Job 6:9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 7:11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 15:2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
Job 18:2How long will it be before all of you make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
Proverbs 1:22How long, all of you simple ones, will all of you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, 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 →