Job 21:3
Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
In Context
2Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.
4Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?
Cross References
Job 12:4He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn.
Job 13:13Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.
Job 16:20For behold my witness is in heaven, and he that knoweth my conscience is on high.
Job 27:12Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?
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 →