Job 8:2

World English Bible (2000)

"How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 6:26 : 26 Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
  • 1 Kgs 19:11 : 11 He said, "Go out, and stand on the mountain before Yahweh." Behold, Yahweh passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.
  • Job 15:2 : 2 "Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
  • Job 16:3 : 3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
  • Job 18:2 : 2 "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
  • Job 19:2-3 : 2 "How long will you torment me, and crush me with words? 3 You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Job 6:9 : 9 even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
  • Exod 10:7 : 7 Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"
  • Job 7:11 : 11 "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Job 11:2-3 : 2 "Shouldn't the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified? 3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

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