Job 21:4
What! is my reproof of man? and why should I not be angry?
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
In Context
3Raise me, and I will speak; then you⌃ shall not laugh me to scorn.
5Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek.
Cross References
Exodus 6:9And Moses spoke thus to the sons of Israel, and they listened not to Moses for faint-heartedness, and for their hard tasks.
2 Kings 6:26And the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, and a woman cried to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
Job 7:11Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:2And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and therefore have you thus judged me?
Psalms 22:1The Lord tends me as a shepherd, and I shall lack nothing. 1
Psalms 77:3All which we have heard and known, and our fathers have declared to us. 1
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 →