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Job 21:1

Then Job answered:

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Wealth;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 25;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
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King James Version
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English Standard Version
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New English Translation
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Amplified Bible
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New American Standard Bible
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World English Bible
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Geneva Bible (1587)
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Legacy Standard Bible
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Contemporary English Version
Job's Reply to Zophar Job said:
Complete Jewish Bible
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Darby Translation
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Easy-to-Read Version
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George Lamsa Translation
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Good News Translation
Listen to what I am saying; that is all the comfort I ask from you. <
Lexham English Bible
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Literal Translation
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Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iob answered, and sayde:
American Standard Version
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Bible in Basic English
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JPS Old Testament (1917)
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King James Version (1611)
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Bishop's Bible (1568)
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Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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English Revised Version
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Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Joob answeride, and seide,
Update Bible Version
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Webster's Bible Translation
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New King James Version
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New Living Translation
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New Life Bible
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New Revised Standard
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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
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Douay-Rheims Bible
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Revised Standard Version
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Young's Literal Translation
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New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Job answered,

Contextual Overview

1Then Job answered:2"Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me. 3Bear with me while I speak; then after I have spoken, you may go on mocking. 4Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient? 5Look at me and be astonished; put your hand over your mouth. 6When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 17:16
And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her."
Genesis 17:19
But God replied, "Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
Genesis 17:21
But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year."
Genesis 18:10
Then the LORD said, "I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!" Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the tent.
Genesis 18:14
Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you-in about a year-and Sarah will have a son."
Genesis 21:17
Then God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, "What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he lies.
Genesis 21:20
And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.
Genesis 50:24
Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
Exodus 3:16
Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.
Exodus 4:31
and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Job answered and said. In reply to what Zophar had asserted, concerning the prosperity of the wicked being only for a short time, Job 20:5; the contrary to which he most clearly proves, and that in many instances their prosperity continues as long as they live; that they die in it, and it is enjoyed by their posterity after them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXI

Job expresses himself as puzzled by the dispensations of Divine

Providence, because of the unequal distribution of temporal

goods; he shows that wicked men often live long, prosper in

their families, in their flocks, and in all their substance,

and yet live in defiance of God and sacred things, 1-16.

At other times their prosperity is suddenly blasted, and they

and their families come to ruin, 17-21.

God, however, is too wise to err; and he deals out various lots

to all according to his wisdom: some come sooner, others later,

to the grave: the strong and the weak, the prince and the

peasant, come to a similar end in this life; but the wicked

are reserved for a day of wrath, 22-33.

He charges his friends with falsehood in their pretended

attempts to comfort him, 34.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXI


 
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