Job 18:2

WEB

²“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

KJV

²How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

BSB

²“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.

FBV

²“How long will you go on talking, hunting for the right words to say?^[+] Talk sense if you want us to reply!

Extra References

Proverbs 18:13

¹³He who answers before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

Job 13:5-6

⁵Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise. ⁶Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

James 1:19

¹⁹So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

⁵Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it. ⁶As 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

¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

Job 11:2

²“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

Job 33:1

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

Job 21:2

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

Job 8:2

²“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

Job 16:2-3

²“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters! ³Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?