He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with a shout of joy.
Parallel translations
- WEB He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
- KJV Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
- NKJV He will yet fill your mouth with laughing, And your lips with rejoicing.
- NASB “He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, And your lips with joyful shouting.
- NLT He will once again fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.
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Quick answer
Bildad assures Job that God will yet fill his mouth with laughter and his lips with shouts of joy. He holds out hope of restored gladness.
Overview
Bildad's tone softens into promise: if Job repents, joy will return. Strikingly, Job's life does end in restored joy (Job 42), though through God's grace and vindication rather than Bildad's prescribed repentance. The verse points to the truth that God can turn mourning into gladness, fully realized in the gospel's joy.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 126:2Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”
- Gen 21:6Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
- Ps 126:6He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.
- Ps 32:11Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, O righteous ones; shout for joy, all you upright in heart.
- Luke 6:21Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
- Ezra 3:11–13And they sang responsively with praise and thanksgiving to the LORD: “For He is good; for His loving devotion to Israel endures forever.” Then all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD had been laid.
- Isa 65:13–14Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.
- Ps 100:1A Psalm of thanksgiving. Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth.
- Job 5:22You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.
- Neh 12:43On that day they offered great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard from afar.
- Ps 98:4Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth; break forth—let your cry ring out, and sing praises!
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