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Job 21:3
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Bear with me while I speak;then after I have spoken, you may continue mocking.
Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
Be patient while I speak. After I have finished, you may continue to make fun of me.
Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock.
"Bear with me, and I also will speak; And after I have spoken, you may [continue to] mock [me].
"Bear with me that I may speak; Then after I have spoken, you may mock me.
Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.
Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.
Bear with me that I may speak;Then after I have spoken, you may mock.
Bear with me while I speak; then after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
And when I have finished, you can start your insults all over again.
Bear with me as I speak; then, after I have spoken, you can go on mocking.
Suffer me and I will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on!
Be patient while I speak. Then after I have finished speaking, you may make fun of me.
Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, then mock on.
Give me a chance to speak and then, when I am through, sneer if you like.
Bear with me, and I myself will speak; then after my speaking you can mock.
Rise with me and I shall speak; then after I have spoken, you may mock.
Suffre me a litle, that I maye speake also, and the laugh my wordes to scorne, yf ye will.
Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.
Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.
Suffer me, that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
Suffer me that I may speake, and after that I haue spoken, mocke on.
Raise me, and I will speak; then ye shall not laugh me to scorn.
Suffer me, and I also will speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
Suffre ye me, that Y speke; and leiye ye aftir my wordis, if it schal seme worthi.
Allow me, and I also will speak; And after I have spoken, mock on.
Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.
Bear with me that I may speak, And after I have spoken, keep mocking.
Bear with me, and let me speak. After I have spoken, you may resume mocking me.
Listen to me while I speak. Then after I have spoken, you may keep on making fun of me.
Bear with me, and I will speak; then after I have spoken, mock on.
Suffer me, that, I, may speak, and, after I have spoken, thou canst mock!
Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.
Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking -- ye may deride.
"Bear with me that I may speak; Then after I have spoken, you may mock.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
that I may: Job 13:13, Job 33:31-33
mock on: Job 12:4, Job 12:5, Job 13:9, Job 16:10, Job 16:20, Job 17:2
Reciprocal: Job 7:11 - I will not Job 13:5 - General Job 13:6 - General Job 27:12 - altogether Job 32:20 - I will speak Job 36:2 - Suffer
Cross-References
Unto who God sayd: Sara thy wife shall beare thee a sonne in deede, & thou shalt call his name Isahac: and I wyll establishe my couenaunt with hym for an euerlastyng couenaunt [and] with his seede after hym.
But Sara sayde: God hath made me to reioyce, so that all that heare, wyll ioy with me.
And God sayde vnto Abraham, let it not be greeuous in thy sight, because of the lad and of thy bonde woman: In al that Sara hath said vnto thee, heare her voyce, for in Isahac shall thy seede be called.
And he saide: take thy sonne, thyne onlye sonne Isahac whom thou louest, & get thee vnto the lande Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering vpon one of the mountaines which I wyl shewe thee.
And I toke your father Abraham from the other side of the fludde, and brought him throughout all the lande of Chanaan, and multiplied his seede, and gaue him Isahac.
Abraham begat Isaac, Isaac begat Iacob, Iacob begat Iudas, and his brethren.
And he gaue hym the couenaunt of circumcision: And he begate Isaac, and circumcised hym the eyght day, and Isaac [begate] Iacob, and Iacob [begate] the twelue patriarkes.
Neither are they all chyldren that are the seede of Abraham: But in Isaac shall thy seede be called.
To whom it was saide, that in Isaac shall thy seede be called.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Suffer me that I may speak,.... To go on with his discourse, without any interruption, until he had finished it; as he before craves their attention, here he entreats their patience to hear him out, as well as to give him leave to begin; they might by their gestures seem as if they were breaking up and departing; or they raised a tumultuous clamour, to hinder his proceeding to reply; or he might fear, that if he was allowed to speak, they would break in upon him before he had done, as they had already; or "bear me", as several of the Jewish commentators explain the phrase; though what he was going to say might sit heavy upon their minds, and be very burdensome, grating, and uneasy to them; yet he entreats they would endure it patiently, until he had made an end of speaking:
and after that I have spoken, mock on; as they had already,
Job 12:4; they had mocked not at his troubles and afflictions, but at his words and arguments in vindication of his innocence; and now all he entreats of them is, that they would admit him to speak once more, and to finish his discourse; and then if they thought fit, or if they could, to go on with their scoffs and derisions of him; if he could but obtain this favour, he should be easy, he should not regard their mockings, but bear them patiently; and he seems to intimate, that he thought he should be able to say such things to them, that would spoil their mocking, and prevent it for the future; so the Greek version renders it, "thou shalt not laugh"; and the words being singular have led many to think, that Zophar, who spoke last, is particularly intended, though it may respect everyone of his friends.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Suffer me that I may speak - Allow me to speak without interruption, or bear with me while I freely express my sentiments - it is all that I now ask.
And after that I have spoken, mock on - Resume your reproaches, if you will, when I am done. I ask only the privilege of expressing my thoughts on a very important point, and when that is done, I will allow you to resume your remarks as you have done before, and you may utter your sentiments without interruption. Or it may be, that Job utters this in a kind of triumph, and that he feels that what he was about to say was so important that it would end the “argument;” and that all they could say after that would be mere mockery and reviling. The word rendered “mock on” (לעג lâ‛ag) means, originally, “to stammer, to speak unintelligibly” - then, “to speak in a barbarous or foreign language” - then, “to deride or to mock, to ridicule or insult.” The idea is, that they might mock his woes, and torture his feelings as they had done, if they would only allow him to express his sentiments.
