Job 18:2 Cross References - LEB

² "_⌊How long_⌋* _⌊will you* hunt for words_⌋?* Consider,* and afterward we shall speak.

⁵ Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let clouds* settle on it; let them* terrify it with the blackness* of day. ⁶ Let darkness seize that night;* let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months.

¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the _⌊weary_⌋* are at rest;

² "_⌊How long_⌋* will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

² "Should an abundance of words go unanswered, or _⌊a man full of talk_⌋* be vindicated?*

⁵ _⌊O that_⌋* you* would keep completely silent, and that it would become wisdom for you.* ⁶ Please hear my argument, and listen attentively to the pleadings of my lips.

² "I have heard many things like these; all of you are _⌊miserable comforters_⌋.* ³ Is there a limit to windy words? What provokes you that you answer?

² "Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your* consolation.

¹ "But now, please hear my speeches,* Job, and hear* all my words.

¹³ He who returns a word before he will hear, folly itself belongs to him as well as* shame.

¹⁹ Understand this, my dear brothers: every person must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,