King James Version
Job 18:2 in the King James Version says “How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.” — study this verse from Job chapter 18 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.”
Job 18:2 · KJV
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? himself: Heb. his soul
KJV Study — Public Domain
“How long”
H5704as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“will it be ere ye make”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“and afterwards”
H310properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
“we will speak”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
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