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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Job 21:1

Then responded Job, and said: -

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Wealth;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 25;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Job answered:
Hebrew Names Version
Then Iyov answered,
King James Version
But Job answered and said,
English Standard Version
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New Century Version
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New English Translation
Then Job answered:
Amplified Bible
Then Job answered and said,
New American Standard Bible
Then Job responded,
World English Bible
Then Job answered,
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
Then Job answered and said:
New Living Translation
Then Job spoke again:
New Life Bible
Then Job answered,
New Revised Standard
Then Job answered:
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 responded Job, and said: - 2 Hear ye patiently my words, and let this be your consolation: 3 Suffer me, that, I, may speak, and, after I have spoken, thou canst mock! 4 Did, I, unto man, make my complaint? Wherefore, then, should my spirit not be impatient? 5 Turn round to me, and be astonished, and lay hand on mouth! 6 When I call to mind, then am I dismayed, and there seizeth my flesh a shuddering: -

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 17:16
and I will bless her, yea moreover will give - from her - to thee, a son, - And I will bless her, and she shall become nations. Kings of peoples, from her, shall arise.
Genesis 17:19
And God said - Truly, Sarah thy wife, is about to bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name, Isaac, - and I will establish my covenant with him as an age-abiding covenant, to his seed after him.
Genesis 17:21
But my covenant, will I establish with Isaac, - whom Sarah shall bear, to thee, by this set time, in the next year.
Genesis 18:10
And he said, I will, surely return, unto thee at the quickening season, - and lo! a son for Sarah thy wife. Now Sarah, was hearkening at the opening of the tent, it, being behind him.
Genesis 18:14
Is anything, too wonderful for Yahweh? At the appointed time, I will return unto thee, at the quickening season and Sarah, shall have a son.
Genesis 21:17
And God heard the voice of the boy, and a messenger of God called unto Hagar out of the heavens; and said to her, What aileth thee, Hagar? Do not fear, for God hath hearkened unto the voice of the boy where he is.
Genesis 21:20
And it came to pass that God was with the boy, and he grew, - and dwelt in the desert, and he became as he grew up, an archer,
Genesis 50:24
Then said Joseph unto his brethren, I, am about to die, - but God will surely concern, himself for you, so will he take you up out of this land, into the land which he sware to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob.
Exodus 3:16
Go - and thou shalt gather together the eiders of Israel and shalt say unto them-Yahweh. God of your fathers, hath appeared unto me, the God of Abraham Isaac, and Jacob saying, - I am, concerned, for you, and for what is done to you in Egypt;
Exodus 4:31
And the people believed, - and when they heard that Yahweh had concerned himself for the sons of Israel, and that he had looked upon their humiliation, then bent they their heads and bowed themselves down.

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


 
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