Job 18:2 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² How long will you lay snares for words and have to hunt for your argument? Do some clear thinking, and then we will reply.

American Standard Version (1901)

² How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

Common English Bible

² How long? Would you all stop talking. Try to understand and then we can speak.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak.

Job 18:2 Cross References

Job 11:2

Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?

Job 18:1

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Job 18:3

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

Job 21:2

Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

Job 3:17

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

Job 33:1

Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.

Job 8:2

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

Proverbs 18:13

He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

James 1:19

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: