Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 18:2 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 2. 2How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
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Role in This Section
Job 18:2 advances the thought unit with the words “How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.” Bildad states “How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak” as one poetic claim in Bildad Resents Job's Rebuke.
Read It With
- Job 18:1–18:4
Read Job 18:2 with 18:1–18:4. Read alone, “How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Bildad tells Job to stop speaking, complains that the friends are treated as beasts, and asks whether the world should be reordered for Job's anger.
Why It Needs Context
Job 18:2 depends on 18:1–18:4; isolating “How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Bildad and “Bildad Resents Job's Rebuke.”
Read Job 18:1–4 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 18:1–18:4 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Bildad Resents Job's Rebuke.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 1. 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Verse 2. 2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
Verse 3. 3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
Verse 4. 4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Job 18:1–18:4 — Bildad Resents Job's RebukeSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 18:1–18:4, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 18:1–18:4
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