How long, &c.— How long will you hunt after cavils against established maxims? speak your meaning plainly, and we will reply. The sense is, that it was in vain to puzzle the cause with cavils and exceptions; that he should give a plain instance where a righteous man was ever known to have had punishment inflicted on him; or else own the truth of the established maxim, that punishment was a sure mark of wickedness. Heath.
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Job 18:2
2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.