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Job 8:2
2‘You should not continue to talk like this. Your words are like a wind that blows strongly.
Job 8:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
- New International Version (NIV)“How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
- New King James Version (NKJV)“How long will you speak these things, And the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
Context of Job 8:2
1Job's friend Bildad, who came from Shuah, decided to speak. He said this to Job: ‘You should not continue to talk like this. Your words are like a wind that blows strongly. 3Surely you know that God is fair. The Almighty God never changes right things into wrong things. 4Your children did things that were wrong. That is why God punished them.
Read all of Job 8Job 8:2 word by word
עַד־אָ֥ן תְּמַלֶּל־אֵ֑לֶּה וְר֥וּחַ כַּ֝בִּיר אִמְרֵי־פִֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 8:2
- Job 11:2‘Someone must answer all these words that you have spoken. You have talked a lot, but that does not mean that you are right.
- Job 16:3Please stop speaking useless words. Why do you talk to me like that?
- Job 18:2‘You should not continue to talk like that! Stop and think carefully. Then we can talk.
- Job 19:2‘Please stop speaking to me like that! Your words continue to make me suffer.
- Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh. They said to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Israelites says this: “You are still too proud to obey me. Let my people go so that they may worship me.
- Proverbs 1:22‘Listen to me! Will you silly people continue to be so silly? You people who laugh at God, will you always be like that? Will fools always refuse to learn anything?
- Job 6:9I would like him to destroy me. He should kill me himself.
- Job 7:11So I must continue to speak. I will tell you how upset I am. I am angry because of what has happened to me. So I must complain.
- Job 15:2‘If you were wise, you would not answer us with such silly ideas. The words that come out from inside you are only a hot wind!
- 1 Kings 19:11The Lord said, ‘Go out from the cave and stand on the mountain, in front of me. I, the Lord, will pass in front of you.’ Then a very strong wind broke the mountain apart. It broke the rocks into pieces as the Lord came near. But the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind, there was an earthquake. But the Lord was not in the earthquake.
Commentaries on Job 8:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2How long wilt thou speak these things? - Wilt thou still go on to charge God foolishly? Thy heavy affliction proves that thou art under his wrath; and his wrath, thus manifested, proves that it is for thy sins that he punisheth thee. Be like a strong wind? - The Arabic, with which the Syriac agrees, is (Syriac) rucholazomati, the spirit of pride. Wilt thou continue to breathe forth a tempest of words? This is more literal.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2How long wilt thou speak these things? - The flyings of murmuring and complaint, such as he had uttered in the previous chapters. The words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? - The Syriac and Arabic (according to Walton) render this, “the spirit of pride fill thy mouth.” The Septuagint renders it, “The spirit of thy mouth is profuse of words” - ̓̔͂ polurrēmon But the common rendering is undoubtedly correct, and the expression is a very strong and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2How long: Bildad might have meant make fun of Job using a similar question (see 7:19).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-22FIRST SERIES--FIRST SPEECH OF BILDAD, MORE SEVERE AND COARSE THAN THAT OF ELIPHAZ. 2. like a ... wind?--disregarding restraints, and daring against God.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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