Job 21:2
Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
In Context
3Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.
Cross References
Judges 9:7This being told to Joatham, he went and stood on the top of mount Garizim: and lifting up his voice, he cried, and said: Hear me, ye men of Sichem, so may God hear you.
Job 13:6Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my lips.
Job 15:11Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy wicked words hinder this.
Job 18:2How long will you throw out words? understand first, and so let us speak.
Job 33:31Attend, Job, and hearken to me : and hold thy peace, whilst I speak.
Isaiah 55:2Why do you spend money for that which is not breed, and your labour for that which doth not satisfy you? Hearken diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in fatness.
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 →