“How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.”
"When will you make an end of words? Consider, and then we shall speak." Bildad expresses frustration with Job's endless speech. He demands that Job stop talking and think. The implication is that if Job would only reflect, he would reach the friends' conclusions. The verse reflects the friends' conviction that their logic is obvious and that Job's failure to accept it indicates willful denial.
Church Fathers on Job 18:2
In a former part of this work we have handled the point, that Almighty God, in order to amend the hearts of those under the law, brought forward the life of blessed Job for a testimony, who knew not the law and yet kept it, who observed the precepts of life, which he had not received in writing. This man’s conduct is first extolled by God’s bearing witness to it, and is afterwards suffered to be put to the proof by the devil’s plotting against it, that he might prove by the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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