Job 8:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:26 : 26 Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?
  • 1 Kgs 19:11 : 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 : 2 “Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?
  • Job 16:3 : 3 Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
  • Job 18:2 : 2 “How long until you make an end of words? You must consider, and then we can talk.
  • Job 19:2-3 : 2 “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words? 3 These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 “How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long have mockers delighted in mockery? And how long will fools hate knowledge?
  • Job 6:9 : 9 And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and told him,“This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has said:‘How long do you refuse to humble yourself before me? Release my people so that they may serve me!
  • Exod 10:7 : 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?”
  • Job 7:11 : 11 Job Remonstrates with God“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 this abundance of words be answered, or should this talkative man be vindicated? 3 Should people remain silent at your idle talk, and should no one rebuke you when you mock?

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    25How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove?

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  • Job 15:12-13
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    12Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

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    8Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

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    17You, whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind,

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    6The Lord’s Second Speech Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind:

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    38when the dust hardens into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?

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    20Should he be informed that I want to speak? If a man speaks, surely he will be swallowed up!

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    25Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?

  • Job 11:5
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    18How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

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    21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

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    19Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.