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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    1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

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    1 Then Job answered,

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  • Job 4:1-2
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    75%

    1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

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  • Job 11:1-3
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    74%

    1 Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

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  • Job 18:3
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    3 Why 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%

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

    32 If 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%

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

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

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

  • Job 37:20
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    20 Shall 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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    12 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

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

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

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

  • Job 34:16
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    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%

    1 Moreover Elihu answered,

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

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

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

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

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