Job 18:2

World English Bible (2000)

"How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:5-6 : 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
  • Job 3:17 : 17 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
  • Job 8:2 : 2 "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
  • Job 11:2 : 2 "Shouldn't the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?
  • Job 13:5-6 : 5 Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise. 6 Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
  • Job 16:2-3 : 2 "I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters! 3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
  • Job 21:2 : 2 "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
  • Job 33:1 : 1 "However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.
  • Prov 18:13 : 13 He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

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    1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

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    1Then Job answered,

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  • Job 4:1-2
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    75%

    1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

    2"If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

  • Job 11:1-3
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    74%

    1Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

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  • Job 18:3
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    3Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

  • Job 25:1
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  • Job 33:31-32
    2 verses
    71%

    31Mark well, Job, and listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will speak.

    32If you have anything to say, answer me. Speak, for I desire to justify you.

  • Job 38:2
    70%

    2"Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

  • Job 32:11
    70%

    11"Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.

  • Job 36:2
    70%

    2"Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God's behalf.

  • Job 21:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2"Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

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    69%

    25How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

    26Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

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    7I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'

  • Job 37:20
    69%

    20Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

  • Job 15:12-13
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    69%

    12Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

    13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • Job 15:3
    69%

    3Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?

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    14for he has not directed his words against me; neither will I answer him with your speeches.

  • Job 34:16
    68%

    16"If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words.

  • Job 33:1
    68%

    1"However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.

  • Job 34:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1Moreover Elihu answered,

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    5I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."

  • Job 21:5
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    5Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

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    16Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge."

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    19Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

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    34Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who hears me:

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    67%

    10Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

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    13"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

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    38when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?