Job 8:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Job 6:26 : 26 Do you imagine to reprove words and the speeches of one who is desperate, which are as wind?
  • 1 Kgs 19:11 : 11 And he said, Go out, and stand on the mountain 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 : 2 Should a wise man utter empty knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
  • Job 16:3 : 3 Will vain words ever end? Or what makes you bold enough to answer?
  • Job 18:2 : 2 How long will it be before you make an end of words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
  • Job 19:2-3 : 2 How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words? 3 These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Job 6:9 : 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 And Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
  • Exod 10:7 : 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 know that Egypt is destroyed?
  • Job 7:11 : 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 11:2-3 : 2 Should not the abundance of words be answered? And should a talkative man be justified? 3 Should your lies silence men? And when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

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