Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 8:21 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 21. 21Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
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Role in This Section
Job 8:21 advances the thought unit with the words “Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.” Bildad states “Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing” as one poetic claim in Bildad Promises Laughter and the Wicked's Ruin.
Read It With
- Job 8:20–8:22
Read Job 8:21 with 8:20–8:22. Read alone, “Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Bildad concludes that God will not reject the blameless and will yet fill Job's mouth with laughter while shaming enemies.
Why It Needs Context
Job 8:21 depends on 8:20–8:22; isolating “Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Bildad and “Bildad Promises Laughter and the Wicked's Ruin.”
Read Job 8:20–22 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 8:20–8:22 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Bildad Promises Laughter and the Wicked's Ruin.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 20. 20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:
Verse 21. 21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
Verse 22. 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 8:20–8:22 — Bildad Promises Laughter and the Wicked's RuinSources 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 8:20–8:22, 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 8:20–8:22
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