Job 21:3
Bear with me that I may indeed speak: and after my speaking, then canst thou mock.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
In Context
2Hear, O hear my speech, and let this be wherewith you give consolations.
4As for me,—is against man my complaint? and if this be so, why should my spirit not be impatient?
Cross References
Job 12:4I am as one laughed at by his friend, who calleth upon God, while he answered him: [yea,] a laughing-stock though righteous and innocent.
Job 13:13Keep silence toward me, that I may indeed speak, and let pass over me what will.
Job 16:20Are my friends my defenders? unto God my eye poureth out [its tears].
Job 27:12Lo! ye yourselves have all beheld it: why is it then that ye deal in such vanities?
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 →