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Job 8:2
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How long will you go on saying these things?Your words are a blast of wind.
"How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
"How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
"How long will you say such things? Your words are no more than wind.
"How long will you speak these things, seeing that the words of your mouth are like a great wind?
"How long will you say these things? And will the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
"How long will you say these things, And the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
"How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
Howe long wilt thou talke of these things? and howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie winde?
"How long will you say these things,And the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
"How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
"How long will you go on talking like this? What you are saying is raging wind!
How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?
"How long will you talk like that? Your words are nothing but hot air!
How long will you speak these things? And how long will your mouth utter proud words?
"How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
Until when will you speak these things, since the words of your mouth are like a mighty wind?
How longe wilt thou talke of soch thinges? how longe shal yi mouth speake so proude wordes?
How long wilt thou speak these things? And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a mighty wind?
How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
Howe long wilt thou talke of such thinges? howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie wind?
How long wilt thou speak these things, seeing that the words of thy mouth are as a mighty wind?
How long wilt thou speake these things? and how long shall the wordes of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
How long wilt thou speak these things, how long shall the breath of thy mouth be abundant in words?
How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a mighty wind?
Hou longe schalt thou speke siche thingis? The spirit of the word of thi mouth is manyfold.
How long will you speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of your mouth be [like] a mighty wind?
How long wilt thou speak these [things]? and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind?
"How long will you speak these things, And the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
"How long will you go on like this? You sound like a blustering wind.
"How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a strong wind?
"How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
How long wilt thou speak these things? Or, as a mighty wind, shall be the sayings of thy mouth?
How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
"How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind -- sayings of thy mouth?
"How long will you say these things, And the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
How long: Job 11:2, Job 11:3, Job 16:3, Job 18:2, Job 19:2, Job 19:3, Exodus 10:3, Exodus 10:7, Proverbs 1:22
the words: Job 6:9, Job 6:26, Job 7:11, Job 15:2, 1 Kings 19:11
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 1:14 - How long Job 34:37 - multiplieth Psalms 139:4 - there is not Jeremiah 5:13 - the prophets
Cross-References
Noah was six hundred years old when the water under the earth started gushing out everywhere. The sky opened like windows, and rain poured down for forty days and nights. All this began on the seventeenth day of the second month of the year.
It returned in the evening, holding in its beak a green leaf from an olive tree. Noah knew that the water was finally going down.
Noah was now six hundred one years old. And by the first day of that year, almost all the water had gone away. Noah made an opening in the roof of the boat and saw that the ground was getting dry.
Can you count the clouds or pour out their water
I was with him when he placed the clouds in the sky and created the springs that fill the ocean.
You threw me down to the bottom of the sea. The water was churning all around; I was completely covered by your mighty waves.
I have officers who give orders to me, and I have soldiers who take orders from me. I can say to one of them, ‘Go!' and he goes. I can say to another, ‘Come!' and he comes. I can say to my servant, ‘Do this!' and he will do it."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
How long wilt thou speak these [things]?.... Either what he had delivered in the "third" chapter in cursing the day of his birth, and wishing for death, in which sentiments he still continued, and resolutely defended; or those expressed in the "two" preceding chapters, in answer to Eliphaz; this he said, as wondering that he should be able to continue his discourse to such a length, and to express himself with such vehemence, when his spirits might be thought to be so greatly depressed by his afflictions, and his body enfeebled by diseases; or as angry with him for his blasphemy against God, as he was ready to term it, his bold and daring speeches of him, and charge of unrighteousness on him, and for his disregard to what Eliphaz had said, his contempt of in and opposition to it; or as impatient at his long reply, wanting him to cease speaking, that he might return an answer, and therefore breaks in upon him before he had well done, see
Job 18:2; or as despising what he had said, representing it as idle talk, and as mere trifling; and so some render the words, "how long wilt thou trifle after this sort?" g or throw out such nonsense and fabulous stuff as this?
and [how long shall] the words of thy mouth [be like] a strong wind? blustering, boisterous, and noisy, to which passionate words, expressed in a loud and sonorous manner, may be compared; and so we say of a man in a passion and rage, that he "storms". Bildad thought that his speeches were hard and rough, and stout against God, and very indecent and unbecoming a creature to his Maker, and not kind and civil to them his friends; and yet they were like wind, vain and empty, great swelling words, but words of vanity; they were spoken, and seemed big, but had nothing solid and substantial in them, as Bildad thought.
g תמלל אלה "nugaberis haec", Cocceius; "talia", Tigurine version; "talk after this sort?" Broughton.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
How 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” - πολυῤῥῆμον polurrēmon. But the common rendering is undoubtedly correct, and the expression is a very strong and beautiful one. His language of complaint and murmuring was like a tempest. It swept over all barriers, and disregarded all restraint. The same figure is found in Aristophanes, Ran. 872, as quoted by Schultens, Τυφὼς ἐχβαίειν παρασκενάξεται Tuphōs ekbainein paraskeuacetai - a tempest of words is preparing to burst forth. And in Silius Italicus, xxi. 581:
- qui tanta superbo
Facta sonas ore, et spumanti turbine perflas
Ignorantum aures.
The Chaldee renders it correctly רבא זעפא - a great tempest.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 8:2. How 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.
