Job 8:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

Job 8:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 15:2
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
Job 6:26
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
1 Kings 19:11
And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake 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:
Job 18:2
How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
Job 11:2-3
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? …

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-7)

Here, I. Bildad reproves Job for what he had said (Job 8:2), checks his passion, but perhaps (as is too common) with greater passion. We thought Job spoke a great deal of good sense and much to the purpose, and that he had reason and right on his side; but Bildad, like an eager angry disputant, turns it all off with this, How long wilt thou speak these things? taking it for granted that Eliphaz ha…

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

(vv. 2)

FIRST SERIES--FIRST SPEECH OF BILDAD, MORE SEVERE AND COARSE THAN THAT OF ELIPHAZ. Job 8:1-22. The Address of Bildad. 2. like a ... wind?--disregarding restraints, and daring against God.