Job 21:1

Christian Standard Bible ®

Then Job answered:

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Then Iyov answered,

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But Job answered and said,

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Then Job answered and said,

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Geneva Bible (1587)
Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Job answered and said,

Berean Standard Bible
Then Job answered:

Contemporary English Version
Job's Reply to Zophar Job said:

Complete Jewish Bible
Then Iyov responded:

Darby Translation
And Job answered and said,

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Job answered:

George Lamsa Translation
THEN Job answered and said,

Good News Translation
Listen to what I am saying; that is all the comfort I ask from you. <

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Then Job answered and said,

Literal Translation
And Job answered and said:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iob answered, and sayde:

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Then Job answered and said,

Bible in Basic English
Then Job made answer and said,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then Job answered and said:

King James Version (1611)
But Iob answered, and sayd,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iob aunswered, and saide:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But Job answered and said,

English Revised Version
Then Job answered and said,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Joob answeride, and seide,

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Then Job answered and said,

Webster's Bible Translation
But Job answered and said,

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Then Job answered and said:

New Living Translation
Then Job spoke again:

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Then Job answered,

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Then Job answered:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then responded Job, and said: -

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Then Job answered, and said:

Revised Standard Version
Then Job answered:

Young's Literal Translation
And Job answereth and saith: --

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Job answered,

Contextual Overview

¹Then Job answered:²Pay close attention to my words;let this be the consolation you offer. ³Bear with me while I speak;then after I have spoken, you may continue mocking. ⁴As for me, is my complaint against a human being?Then why shouldn’t I be impatient? ⁵Look at me and shudder;put your hand over your mouth. ⁶When I think about it, I am terrifiedand my body trembles in horror.

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Cross-References

Genesis 17:16
I will bless her; indeed, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will produce nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”

Genesis 17:19
But God said, “No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a permanent covenant for his future offspring.

Genesis 17:21
But I will confirm my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”

Genesis 18:10
The Lord said, “I will certainly come back to you in about a year’s time, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent behind him.

Genesis 18:14
Is anything impossible for the Lord? At the appointed time I will come back to you, and in about a year she will have a son.”

Genesis 21:17
God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What’s wrong, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard the boy crying from the place where he is.

Genesis 21:20
God was with the boy, and he grew; he settled in the wilderness and became an archer.

Genesis 50:24
Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will certainly come to your aid and bring you up from this land to the land he swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

Exodus 3:16
“Go and 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 paid close attention to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt.

Exodus 4:31
The people believed, and when they heard that the Lord had paid attention to them and that he had seen their misery, they knelt low 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