Job 21:3
Permit me, and I will speak, and afterwards, if you see fit, you can laugh at my words.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
In Context
2I beseech you to hear my words and to do penance.
4Is my dispute against man, so that I would have no reason to be discouraged?
Cross References
Job 12:4He who is mocked by his friends as I am, will call upon God, and he will listen to him because it is the sincerity of the just that is being mocked.
Job 13:13Be silent for a little while, so that I may speak whatever my mind suggests to me.
Job 16:20For behold, my witness is in heaven, and my confidante is on high.
Job 27:12Behold, you know all this, and so why do you speak vain things without a reason?
Matthew Henry on Job 21:2-7
The Reply of Job to Zophar. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But Job answered and said, 2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. 3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? 5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. 6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. Job here recommends himself, both his case and his discourse, both what he… Read the whole commentary →