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THE MESSAGE
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.
Suffer me that I may speake, and when 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
But God said, "That's not what I mean. Your wife, Sarah, will have a baby, a son. Name him Isaac (Laughter). I'll establish my covenant with him and his descendants, a covenant that lasts forever.
He said, "Take your dear son Isaac whom you love and go to the land of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I'll point out to you."
Israel served God through the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him, who had themselves experienced all that God had done for Israel. Joseph's bones, which the People of Israel had brought from Egypt, they buried in Shechem in the plot of ground that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor (who was the father of Shechem). He paid a hundred silver coins for it. It belongs to the inheritance of the family of Joseph. Eleazar son of Aaron died. They buried him at Gibeah, which had been allotted to his son Phinehas in the mountains of Ephraim.
Abraham had Isaac, Isaac had Jacob, Jacob had Judah and his brothers, Judah had Perez and Zerah (the mother was Tamar), Perez had Hezron, Hezron had Aram, Aram had Amminadab, Amminadab had Nahshon, Nahshon had Salmon, Salmon had Boaz (his mother was Rahab), Boaz had Obed (Ruth was the mother), Obed had Jesse, Jesse had David, and David became king. David had Solomon (Uriah's wife was the mother), Solomon had Rehoboam, Rehoboam had Abijah, Abijah had Asa, Asa had Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat had Joram, Joram had Uzziah, Uzziah had Jotham, Jotham had Ahaz, Ahaz had Hezekiah, Hezekiah had Manasseh, Manasseh had Amon, Amon had Josiah, Josiah had Jehoiachin and his brothers, and then the people were taken into the Babylonian exile. When the Babylonian exile ended, Jeconiah had Shealtiel, Shealtiel had Zerubbabel, Zerubbabel had Abiud, Abiud had Eliakim, Eliakim had Azor, Azor had Zadok, Zadok had Achim, Achim had Eliud, Eliud had Eleazar, Eleazar had Matthan, Matthan had Jacob, Jacob had Joseph, Mary's husband, the Mary who gave birth to Jesus, the Jesus who was called Christ. There were fourteen generations from Abraham to David, another fourteen from David to the Babylonian exile, and yet another fourteen from the Babylonian exile to Christ. The birth of Jesus took place like this. His mother, Mary, was engaged to be married to Joseph. Before they came to the marriage bed, Joseph discovered she was pregnant. (It was by the Holy Spirit, but he didn't know that.) Joseph, chagrined but noble, determined to take care of things quietly so Mary would not be disgraced. While he was trying to figure a way out, he had a dream. God's angel spoke in the dream: "Joseph, son of David, don't hesitate to get married. Mary's pregnancy is Spirit-conceived. God's Holy Spirit has made her pregnant. She will bring a son to birth, and when she does, you, Joseph, will name him Jesus—‘God saves'—because he will save his people from their sins." This would bring the prophet's embryonic sermon to full term: Watch for this—a virgin will get pregnant and bear a son; They will name him Immanuel (Hebrew for "God is with us"). Then Joseph woke up. He did exactly what God's angel commanded in the dream: He married Mary. But he did not consummate the marriage until she had the baby. He named the baby Jesus.
"Then he made a covenant with him and signed it in Abraham's flesh by circumcision. When Abraham had his son Isaac, within eight days he reproduced the sign of circumcision in him. Isaac became father of Jacob, and Jacob father of twelve ‘fathers,' each faithfully passing on the covenant sign.
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.
