Job 8:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:26 : 26 My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.
  • 1 Kgs 19:11 : 11 Then he said, Go out and take your place on the mountain before the Lord. Then the Lord went by, and mountains were parted by the force of a great wind, and rocks were broken before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind there was an earth-shock, but the Lord was not in the earth-shock.
  • Job 15:2 : 2 Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?
  • Job 16:3 : 3 May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
  • Job 18:2 : 2 How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.
  • Job 19:2-3 : 2 How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words? 3 Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?
  • Job 6:9 : 9 If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.
  • Exod 10:7 : 7 And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long is this man to be the cause of evil to us? let the men go so that they may give worship to the Lord their God: are you not awake to Egypt's danger?
  • Job 7:11 : 11 So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.
  • Job 11:2-3 : 2 Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk? 3 Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

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    1 Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,

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    1 Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,

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    2 How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?

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    3 May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?

  • Job 6:25-26
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    25 How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?

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  • Job 15:12-13
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    12 Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;

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  • Job 11:2-3
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    2 Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk?

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  • Job 25:1
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    1 Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said,

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    2 Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?

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    8 Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.

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    1 And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,

    2 Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

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    4 To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

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    8 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

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    24 Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

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    17 You, whose clothing is warm, when the earth is quiet because of the south wind,

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    38 When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

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    20 How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?

    21 And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.

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    25 Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

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    5 But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;

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    22 Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.

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    10 O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

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    19 Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.