Job 21:1

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

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Contextual Overview

¹ Then Job answered: ² "Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation. ³ Bear with me, and I will speak; then after I have spoken, mock on. ⁴ As for me, is my complaint addressed to mortals? Why should I not be impatient? ⁵ Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth. ⁶ When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.

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Cross-References

Genesis 17:16
I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."

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

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

Genesis 18:10
Then one said, "I will surely return to you in due season, and your wife Sarah shall have a son." And Sarah was listening at the tent entrance behind him.

Genesis 18:14
Is anything too wonderful for the Lord ? At the set time I will return to you, in due season, and Sarah shall have a son."

Genesis 21:17
And God heard the voice of the boy; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid; for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

Genesis 21:20
God was with the boy, and he grew up; he lived in the wilderness, and became an expert with the bow.

Genesis 50:24
Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die; but God will surely come to you, and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."

Exodus 3:16
Go and assemble the elders of Israel, and say to them, ‘The Lord , the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying: I have given heed 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 given heed to the Israelites and that he 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