Job 21:1

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Then Job answered and said,

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Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,

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Job's Reply to Zophar Job said:

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THEN Job answered and said,

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

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Iob answered, and sayde:

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Then Job made answer and said,

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But Iob answered, and sayd,

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Iob aunswered, and saide:

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

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Then Job spoke again:

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Contextual Overview

¹Then Job answered and said, ²"Listen carefully to my speech,And let this be your way of consolation. ³Bear with me that I may speak;Then after I have spoken, you may mock. ⁴As for me, is my musing to man?And why should I not be impatient? ⁵Look at me, and be appalled,And put your hand over your mouth. ⁶Even when I remember, I am dismayed,And horror seizes my flesh.

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Cross-References

Genesis 17:16
And I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."

Genesis 17:19
But God said, "No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

Genesis 17:21
But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this season next year."

Genesis 18:10
And He said, "I will surely return to you at this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent door which was behind him.

Genesis 18:14
Is anything too difficult for Yahweh? At the appointed time I will return to you, at this time next year, and Sarah will have a son."

Genesis 21:17
Then God heard the voice of the boy crying; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What is the matter with you, Hagar? Do not fear, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

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

Genesis 50:24
And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will surely take care of you and bring you up from this land to the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

Exodus 3:16
Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I indeed care about you and what has been done to you in Egypt.

Exodus 4:31
So the people believed; and they heard that Yahweh cared about the sons of Israel and that He had seen their affliction. So they bowed 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