Job 8:2

New American Bible - revised edition

How long will you utter such things? The words from your mouth are a mighty wind!

Cross References

1 Kings 19:11

Then the Lord said: Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord; the Lord will pass by. There was a strong and violent wind rending the mountains and crushing rocks before the Lord—but the Lord was not in the wind; after the wind, an earthquake—but the Lord was not in the earthquake;

Job 15:2

Does a wise man answer with windy opinions, or puff himself up with the east wind?

Job 16:3

Is there no end to windy words? What sickness makes you rattle on?

Job 18:2

When will you put an end to words? Reflect, and then we can have discussion.

Job 6:26

Do you consider your words as proof, but the sayings of a desperate man as wind?

Job 6:9

Even that God would decide to crush me, that he would put forth his hand and cut me off!

Job 7:11

My own utterance I will not restrain; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 8:1

Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: How long will you refuse to submit to me? Let my people go to serve me.

Exodus 10:7

But Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will he be a snare for us? Let the people go to serve the Lord, their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is being destroyed?”

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, you naive ones, will you love naivete,

Jeremiah 5:13

The prophets are wind, and the word is not with them. Let it be done to them!”