Albert Barnes Commentary Job 8:2

"How long wilt thou speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of thy mouth be [like] a mighty wind?" — Job 8:2 (ASV)

How long will you speak these things? — These flights of murmuring and complaint, such as he had uttered in the previous chapters.

The words of your mouth be like a strong wind? — The Syriac and Arabic (according to Walton) render this, “the spirit of pride fill thy mouth.” The Septuagint renders it, “The spirit of your mouth is profuse of words”—πολυῤῥῆμον polurrēmon.

But the common rendering is undoubtedly correct, and the expression is a very strong and beautiful one. His language of complaint and murmuring was like a tempest. It swept over all barriers and disregarded all restraint.

The same figure is found in Aristophanes, Ran. 872, as quoted by Schultens, Τυφὼς ἐχβαίειν παρασκενάξεται Tuphōs ekbainein paraskeuacetai—a tempest of words is preparing to burst forth. And in Silius Italicus, xxi. 581:

- qui tanta superbo
Facta sonas ore, et spumanti turbine perflas
Ignorantum aures.

The Chaldee renders it correctly רבא זעפא—a great tempest.