Job 18:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

Job 18:2 —

Old words in this verse

ere: — before.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 18:13
He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
Job 13:5-6
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. …
Job 21:2
Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
Job 11:2
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
James 1:19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Topics

Self-Righteousness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

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 serving Satan’s design in adding to Job’s affliction. I. He charges him with idle endless talk, as Eliphaz had done (Job 15:2, 3): How long will it be ere you make an end of words? Job 18:2. Here he reflects, not only upon Job himself, but either upon…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

SECOND SERIES. Job 18:1-21. Reply of Bildad. 2. ye--the other two friends of Job, whom Bildad charges with having spoken mere “words,” that is, empty speeches; opposed to “mark,” that is, come to reason, consider the question intelligently; and then let us speak.