Job 21:3

Be patient with me, and allow me to speak. Then, after I am finished speaking, you can continue to make fun of me.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

In Context

2“Listen to what I say, all three of you; that is the only thing that you can do that will comfort me.

4“It is certainly not [RHQ] people against whom I am complaining, but God And it is certainly [RHQ] right for me to be impatient!

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Cross References

Job 12:4My friends all laugh at me now. Previously I habitually requested God to help me, and he answered/helped me. I am righteous, a very godly man [DOU], but everyone laughs at me.

Job 13:13“So, be quiet and allow me to speak, and then it will not matter what happens to me.

Job 16:20My three friends scorn/ridicule me, but my eyes are full of tears while I cry out to God.

Job 27:12But you three have seen for yourselves what God has done; so ◄why are you saying such nonsense?/you should not be saying such nonsense.► [RHQ]

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 →

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