Job 8:2
New Revised Standard Version
“How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?

Contemporary English Version
How long will you talk and keep saying nothing?

New American Bible
How long will you utter such things? The words from your mouth are a mighty wind!

Douay-Rheims Bible
How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

How long.

Job 11:2,3 Shall not he that speaketh much, hear also? or shall a man full of talk be justified? . . .

Job 16:3 Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak?

Job 18:2 How long will you throw out words? understand first, and so let us speak.

Job 19:2,3 How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words? . . .

Exodus 10:3,7 Therefore Moses and Aaron went in to Pharao, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: How long refusest thou to submit to me? let my people go, to sacrifice to me. . . .

Proverbs 1:22 Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.

the words.

Job 6:9,26 And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off? . . .

Job 7:11 Wherefore, I will not spare my mouth, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.

Job 15:2 Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat?

1 Kings 19:11 And he said to him: Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord: and behold the Lord passeth, and a great and strong wind before the Lord, overthrowing the mountains, and breaking the rocks in pieces: but the Lord is not in the wind. And after the wind, an earthquake: but the Lord is not in the earthquake.

Context
Bildad: Job Should Repent
1Then Baldad, the Suhite, answered, and said: 2How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?3Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?…
Cross References
Job 6:26
You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the wind.

Job 8:1
Then Baldad, the Suhite, answered, and said:

Job 11:2
Shall not he that speaketh much, hear also? or shall a man full of talk be justified?

Jeremiah 5:13
The prophets have spoken in the wind, and there was no word of God in them: these things therefore shall befall them.

Job 8:1
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