Job 8:21
in Job 8He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.
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ASV
He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, And thy lips with shouting.
KJV
Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
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This verse in Job 8
Commentary
9 notes on this verseTill He fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with shouting. For the 'mouth' of the righteous will then be 'filled with laughing' when the tears of their pilgrimage being done, their hearts shall be filled to the full with exulting in eternal joy. Concerning this laughing 'Truth' saith to His disciples, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
This site's exposition
God does not reject the blameless
on Job 8:20-22
Bildad states the friends' creed: "God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers". The reader carries from 1:1 the narrator's own word that Job is blameless, so Bildad's true doctrine collides with the case in front of him.
This site's exposition
He will yet fill your mouth with laughter
Clarke suggests reading the verse as a wish, and he finds Bildad less harsh than Eliphaz. Henry grants that God will fill the mouth of the blameless with laughter, in this life or the next. Bildad offers it on his own terms.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Yet Job could say, "Whatever you may say and you want to prove with analogies I have experienced the contrary. For when I was simple, I suffered adversity and my evil adversaries prevailed against me." Bildad wishes to disprove this saying, "Until your mouth be …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Now it is true that God will not cast away an upright man; he may be cast down for a time, but he shall not be cast away for ever. It is true that, if not in this world, yet in another, the mouth of the righteous shall be filled with rejoicing.
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, 2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind? 3 Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? 4 If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
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Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing. Directing himself to Job; and suggesting, that if he was a perfect, sincere, and upright man.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Till he fill thy mouth with laughing - Until he make thee completely happy. The word rendered “till” (עד ‛ad), is rendered by Dr. Good, “even yet.” Noyes, following Houbigant, DeWette, and Michaelis, proposes to change the pointing, and to read עד ‛ôd, instead of עד ‛ad - meaning, “while.” The verse is connected with that which follows, and the particle used here evidently means “while,” or “even yet” - and the whole passage means, “if you return to God, he will even yet fill you with joy, while those who hate you shall be clothed with shame.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Till he fill thy mouth with laughing - Perhaps it may be well to translate after Mr. Good “Even yet may he fill thy mouth with laughter!” The two verses may be read as a prayer; and probably they were thus expressed by Bildad, who speaks with less virulence than his predecessor, though with equal positiveness in respect to the grand charge, viz., If thou wert not a sinner of no mean magnitude, God would not have inflicted such unprecedented calamities upon thee. This most exceptionable position, which is so contrary to matter of fact, was founded upon maxims which they derived from the ancients. Surely observation must have, in numberless instances, corrected this mistake. They must have seen many worthless men in high prosperity, and many of the excellent of the earth in deep adversity and affliction; but the opposite was an article of their creed, and all appearances and facts must take its colouring. Job’s friends must have been acquainted, at least, with the history of the ancient patriarchs; and most certainly they contained facts of an opposite nature. Righteous Abel was persecuted and murdered by his wicked brother, Cain. Abram was obliged to leave his own country on account of worshipping the true God; so all tradition has said. Jacob was persecuted by his brother Esau; Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers; Moses was obliged to flee from Egypt, and was variously tried and afflicted, even by his own brethren. Not to mention David, and almost all the prophets. All these were proofs that the best of men were frequently exposed to sore afflictions and heavy calamities; and it is not by the prosperity or adversity of men in this world, that we are to judge of the approbation or disapprobation of God towards them. In every case our Lord’s rule is infallible: By their fruits ye shall know them.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עַד־ | ʾad- | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| יְמַלֵּ֣ה | yemaleh | he will fill | H4390 → | 249 times |
| שְׂח֣וֹק | sechok | laughter | H7814 → | 15 times |
| פִּ֑יךָ | pikha | mouth your | H6310 → | 498 times |
| וּשְׂפָתֶ֥יךָ | usefateikha | and lips your | H8193 → | 176 times |
| תְרוּעָֽה׃ | teruah | a shout of joy | H8643 → | 36 times |
עַד־until
ʾad-H5704 →1261 times
יְמַלֵּ֣הhe will fill
yemalehH4390 →249 times
שְׂח֣וֹקlaughter
sechokH7814 →15 times
פִּ֑יךָmouth your
pikhaH6310 →498 times
וּשְׂפָתֶ֥יךָand lips your
usefateikhaH8193 →176 times
תְרוּעָֽה׃a shout of joy
teruahH8643 →36 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 126:6He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.
it leads to
- Isaiah 9:2–3
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.
- Galatians 6:7–8
Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
- Psalms 30:5
For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
- Isaiah 9:2–3
Through
Genesis 21:6Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
it leads to
- Psalms 126:2
Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”
- Isaiah 54:1
“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her…
- Genesis 17:17
Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”
- Luke 1:58
Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they rejoiced with her.
- Isaiah 49:21
Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone,…
- Psalms 126:2
About Job
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Job; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book VIII; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.