New English Translation
Job 8:21
21He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with gladness.
Job 8:21 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
- New International Version (NIV)He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He will yet fill your mouth with laughing, And your lips with rejoicing.
Context of Job 8:21
19Indeed, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others spring up. 20“Surely, God does not reject a blameless man, nor does he grasp the hand of the evildoers. He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with gladness. 22Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
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עַד־יְמַלֵּ֣ה שְׂח֣וֹק פִּ֑יךָ וּשְׂפָתֶ֥יךָ תְרוּעָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 8:21
- Genesis 21:6Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.”
- Psalms 126:2At that time we laughed loudly and shouted for joy. At that time the nations said, “The Lord has accomplished great things for these people.”
- Luke 6:21“Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
- Ezra 3:11With antiphonal response they sang, praising and glorifying the Lord: “For he is good; his loyal love toward Israel is forever.” All the people gave a loud shout as they praised the Lord when the temple of the Lord was established.
- Nehemiah 12:43And on that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced, for God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced. The rejoicing in Jerusalem could be heard from far away.
- Psalms 32:11Rejoice in the Lord and be happy, you who are godly! Shout for joy, all you who are morally upright!
- Psalms 98:4Shout out praises to the Lord, all the earth! Break out in a joyful shout and sing!
- Psalms 100:1Shout out praises to the Lord, all the earth!
- Isaiah 65:13So this is what the sovereign Lord says: “Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry! Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty! Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!
Commentaries on Job 8:21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 21Till he fill thy mouth with laughing - Perhaps it may be well to translate after Mr. Good "Even yet may he fill thy mouth with laughter!" The two verses may be read as a prayer; and probably they were thus expressed by Bildad, who speaks with less virulence than his predecessor, though with equal positiveness in respect to the grand charge, viz., If thou wert not a sinner of no mean magnitude, God would not have inflicted such unprecedented calamities…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 21Till he fill thy mouth with laughing - Until he make thee completely happy. The word rendered “till” (עד ‛ad ), is rendered by Dr. Good, “even yet.” Noyes, following Houbigant, DeWette, and Michaelis, proposes to change the pointing, and to read עד ‛ôd instead of עד ‛ad - meaning, “while.” The verse is connected with that which follows, and the particle used here evidently means “while,” or “even yet” - and the whole passage means, “if you return to God…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-22Verses 20-22 Bildad here assures Job, that as he was so he should fare; therefore they concluded, that as he fared so he was. God will not cast away an upright man; he may be cast down for a time, but he shall not be cast away for ever. Sin brings ruin on persons and families. Yet to argue, that Job was an ungodly, wicked man, was unjust and uncharitable. The mistake in these reasonings arose from Job's friends not distinguishing between the present state…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2121. Till--literally, "to the point that"; God's blessing on thee, when repentant, will go on increasing to the point that, or until, &c.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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