Job 8:2

New Century Version

“How long will you say such things? Your words are no more than wind.

Cross References

1 Kings 19:11

The Lord said to Elijah, “Go, stand in front of me on the mountain, and I will pass by you.” Then a very strong wind blew until it caused the mountains to fall apart and large rocks to break in front of the Lord . But the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind, there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

Job 15:2

“A wise person would not answer with empty words or fill his stomach with the hot east wind.

Job 16:3

Will your long-winded speeches never end? What makes you keep on arguing?

Job 18:2

“When will you stop these speeches? Be sensible, and then we can talk.

Job 6:26

Do you mean to correct what I say? Will you treat the words of a troubled man as if they were only wind?

Job 6:9

How I wish God would crush me and reach out his hand to destroy me.

Job 7:11

“So I will not stay quiet; I will speak out in the suffering of my spirit. I will complain because I am so unhappy.

Job 8:1

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron went to the king and told him, “This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to be sorry for what you have done? Let my people go to worship me.

Exodus 10:7

The king’s officers asked him, “How long will this man make trouble for us? Let the Israelites go to worship the Lord their God. Don’t you know that Egypt is ruined?”

Proverbs 1:22

“You fools, how long will you be foolish? How long will you make fun of wisdom and hate knowledge?

Jeremiah 5:13

The prophets are like an empty wind; the word of God is not in them. Let the bad things they say happen to them.”