Job 8:2
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2 “How long will you say these things
and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
Job 15:2
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2 “Should the wise answer with windy knowledge
and fill themselves with the east wind?(A)
Job 6:26
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26 Do you think that you can reprove words,
as if the speech of the desperate were wind?(A)
1 Kings 19:11
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Elijah Meets God at Horeb
11 He said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind, and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake,(A)
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Proverbs 1:22
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22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
and fools hate knowledge?(A)
Job 19:2-3
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2 “How long will you torment me
and break me in pieces with words?
3 These ten times you have cast reproach upon me;
are you not ashamed to wrong me?
Job 18:2
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2 “How long will you hunt for words?
Consider, and then we shall speak.
Job 16:3
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3 Have windy words no limit?
Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?(A)
Job 11:2-3
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2 “Should a multitude of words go unanswered,
and should one full of talk be vindicated?(A)
3 Should your babble put others to silence,
and when you mock, shall no one shame you?(B)
Job 7:11
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11 “Therefore I will not restrain my mouth;
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.(A)
Job 6:9
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9 that it would please God to crush me,
that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!(A)
Exodus 10:7
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7 Pharaoh’s officials said to him, “How long shall this fellow be a snare to us? Send the people away, so that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined?”(A)
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Exodus 10:3
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3 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may serve me.(A)
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