Job 8:2

WEB

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

KJV

²How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

BSB

²“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.

FBV

²“How much longer will you go on talking like this? The words coming out of your mouth are a lot of hot air!

Extra References

Job 15:2

²“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

Job 6:26

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

¹¹He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD.” Behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake.

Proverbs 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 18:2

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

Job 11:2-3

²“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified? ³Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?

Job 6:9

⁹even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Job 16:3

³Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

Exodus 10:7

⁷Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD, 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.