Job 8:2
“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
BSB
ASV
How long wilt thou speak these things? And how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a mighty wind?
KJV
How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
How long wilt thou speak these things? - Wilt thou still go on to charge God foolishly? Thy heavy affliction proves that thou art under his wrath; and his wrath, thus manifested, proves that it is for thy sins that he punisheth thee. Be like a strong wind? - The Arabic, with which the Syriac agrees, is (Syriac) rucholazomati, the spirit of pride. Wilt thou continue to breathe forth a tempest of words? This is more literal.
Thus (as Caryl observes) reproofs are often grounded upon mistakes. Men's meaning is not taken aright, and then they are gravely rebuked as if they were evil-doers.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Job 7:11Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O LORD, do know.
In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.
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1 Kings 19:11Then the LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Behold, the LORD is about to pass by.” And a great and mighty wind tore into the mountains and shattered…
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I looked and saw a whirlwind coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing back and forth and brilliant light all around it. In the center of the fire was a gleam…
Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth, but heaven as well.”