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Job 18:2

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How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
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  1. Job 13:5–6Rank 1 from verse 2
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    5O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

    6Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

  2. Proverbs 18:13Rank 2 from verse 2
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    13He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

  3. James 1:19Rank 3 from verse 2
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    19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

  4. Job 11:2Rank 4 from verse 2
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    2Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?

  5. Job 16:2–3Rank 5 from verse 2
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    2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

    3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

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Job 18:2

COMBINED MEANING

long

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Sense 1: Extending a great distance or duration. Sense 2: To desire earnestly.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ere

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Before; sooner than; prior to the stated act, event, or time.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

make

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To form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

end

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Sense 1: The last or concluding part, termination, or limit. Sense 2: A purpose or intended result. Sense 3: As a verb, to cease or bring to a close.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

words

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Spoken or written expressions, sayings, statements, messages, commands, promises, reports, or units of meaningful speech.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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mark

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1. A sign or token set upon or belonging to a person or thing. 2. An object or point aimed at. 3. To notice, observe, designate, keep account of, or set a sign upon.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

speak

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Sense 1: To utter words or articulate sounds, or to use a language. Sense 2: To address or converse with someone. Sense 3: To state, declare, make mention of, or otherwise make a matter known.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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18:1THEN answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

18:2How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

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18:3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

18:4He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

18:5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

18:6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

18:7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

18:8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

18:9The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

18:10The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

18:11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

18:12His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

18:13It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

18:14His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

18:15It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

18:16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

18:17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

18:18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

18:19He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

18:20They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.

18:21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

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