Job 8:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² “How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² How long will you say these things [Job]? And how long shall the words of your mouth be as a mighty wind?

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

² How long will you mouth such things such that your utterances become a strong wind?

Catholic Public Domain Version

² How long will you speak this way, so that the words of your mouth are like a changeable wind?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Job 8:2 Cross References

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 broke 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 15:2

“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

Job 16:3

Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

Job 18:2

“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.

Job 6:26

Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?

Job 6:9

that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

Job 7:11

“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 8:1

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Exodus 10:7

And Pharaoh's servants said to him, “How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God; do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined?”

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Jeremiah 5:13

The prophets will become wind; the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them!’ ”