Job 33:1
Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
In Context
2Behold now I have opened my mouth, let my tongue speak within my jaws.
Cross References
Job 13:6Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my lips.
Job 34:2Hear ye, wise men, my words, and ye learned, hearken to me :
Mark 4:9And he said: He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Matthew Henry on Job 33:1
Pompous prefaces, like the teeming mountain, often introduce poor performances; but Elihu's discourse here does not disappoint the expectations which his preface had raised. It is substantial, and lively, and very much to the purpose. He had, in the foregoing chapter, said what he had to say to Job's three friends; and now he comes up close to Job himself and directs his speech to him. I. He bespeaks Job's favourable acceptance of what he should say, and desires he would take him for that person whom he had so… Read the whole commentary →