English Standard Version
Job 8:2
2"How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“How long will you speak these things, And the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
- New Living Translation (NLT)“How long will you go on like this? You sound like a blustering wind.
Context of Job 8:2
1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: "How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind? 3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right? 4If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.
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"Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be judged right?
- Job 16:3Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
- Job 18:2"How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.
- Job 19:2"How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words?
- Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, "Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
- Proverbs 1:22"How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
- Job 6:9that 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 restrain my mouth; 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 windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
- 1 Kings 19:11And he said, "Go out and stand on the mount before the Lord." And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind 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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