Job 18:2
Unto what end shalt thou boast with words? Understand thou us first, and so speak we together. (Unto what end shalt thou continue to boast with your words? First listen to us, and then we shall speak together.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
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, and said,
3Why be we areckoned as beasts, and why have we been (judged) foul before thee?
Cross References
Job 3:5Darkness make it dark, and the shadow of death and of mist occupy it; and be it wrapped with bitterness. (Let darkness make it dark, and the shadow of death and mist fill it full; and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.)
Job 8:2How long shalt thou speak such things? The spirit of the word of thy mouth is manyfold (or The many words from thy mouth be just so much wind).
Job 13:5And I would, that ye were still, that ye were guessed to be wise men. (And I wish, that ye held your peace, so that ye could be thought to be wise.)
Job 21:2I pray you, hear ye my words, and do ye penance.
Proverbs 18:13He that answereth before that he heareth, showeth himself to be a fool; and worthy of shame.
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 →