Job 21:2
“Hear my word diligently, || And this is your consolation.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
In Context
3Bear with me, and I speak, || And after my speaking—you may deride.
Cross References
Judges 9:7and they declare [it] to Jotham, and he goes and stands on the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifts up his voice, and calls, and says to them, “Listen to me, O masters of Shechem, and God listens to you:
Job 13:6Please hear my argument, || And attend to the pleadings of my lips,
Job 15:11Are the comforts of God too few for you? And a gentle word [is] with you,
Job 18:2“When do you set an end to words? Consider, and afterward we speak.
Job 33:31Attend, O Job, listen to me, || Keep silent, and I speak.
Isaiah 55:2Why do you weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labor for that which is not for satiety? Listen diligently to Me, and eat good, || And your soul delights itself 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 →