Job 8:2

New English Translation

“How long will you speak these things, seeing that the words of your mouth are like a great wind?

Cross References

1 Kings 19:11

The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord. Look, the Lord is ready to pass by.” A very powerful wind went before the Lord, digging into the mountain and causing landslides, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the windstorm there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

Job 15:2

“Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?

Job 16:3

Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?

Job 18:2

“How long until you make an end of words? You must consider, and then we can talk.

Job 6:26

Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?

Job 6:9

And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.

Job 7:11

“Therefore, I will not refrain 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 spoke up and said:

Exodus 10:3

So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and told him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: ‘How long do you refuse to humble yourself before me? Release my people so that they may serve me!

Exodus 10:7

Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a menace to us? Release the people so that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not know that Egypt is destroyed?”

Proverbs 1:22

“How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?

Jeremiah 5:13

The prophets will prove to be full of wind. The Lord has not spoken through them. So, let what they say happen to them.’”