Job 21:1

New Living Translation

Then Job spoke again:

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Christian Standard Bible®
Then Job answered:

Hebrew Names Version
Then Iyov answered,

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But Job answered and said,

English Standard Version
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New English Translation
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Amplified Bible
Then Job answered and said,

New American Standard Bible
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World English Bible
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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. <

Lexham English Bible
Then Job answered and said,

Literal Translation
And Job answered and said:

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

American Standard Version
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,

Update Bible Version
Then Job answered and said,

Webster's Bible Translation
But Job answered and said,

New King James Version
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New Life Bible
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New Revised Standard
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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then responded Job, and said: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
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

¹ Then Job spoke again: ² "Listen closely to what I am saying. That's one consolation you can give me. ³ Bear with me, and let me speak. After I have spoken, you may resume mocking me. ⁴ "My complaint is with God, not with people. I have good reason to be so impatient. ⁵ Look at me and be stunned. Put your hand over your mouth in shock. ⁶ When I think about what I am saying, I shudder. My body trembles.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 17:16
And I will bless her and give you a son from her! Yes, I will bless her richly, and she will become the mother of many nations. Kings of nations will be among her descendants."

Genesis 17:19
But God replied, "No—Sarah, your wife, will give birth to a son for you. You will name him Isaac, and I will confirm my covenant with him and his descendants as an everlasting covenant.

Genesis 17:21
But my covenant will be confirmed with Isaac, who will be born to you and Sarah about this time next year."

Genesis 18:10
Then one of them said, "I will return to you about this time next year, and your wife, Sarah, will have a son!" Sarah was listening to this conversation from the tent.

Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son."

Genesis 21:17
But God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, "Hagar, what's wrong? Do not be afraid! God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.

Genesis 21:20
And God was with the boy as he grew up in the wilderness. He became a skillful archer,

Genesis 50:24
"Soon I will die," Joseph told his brothers, "but God will surely come to help you and lead you out of this land of Egypt. He will bring you back to the land he solemnly promised to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

Exodus 3:16
"Now go and call together all the elders of Israel. Tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me. He told me, "I have been watching closely, and I see how the Egyptians are treating you.

Exodus 4:31
Then the people of Israel were convinced that the Lord had sent Moses and Aaron. When they heard that the Lord was concerned about them and had seen their misery, 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