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Job 21:1

Then Job answered,

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
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English Standard Version
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New Century Version
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New English Translation
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Amplified Bible
Then Job answered and said,
New American Standard Bible
Then Job responded,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Job answered and said,
Berean Standard Bible
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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 Living Translation
Then Job spoke again:
New Life Bible
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New Revised Standard
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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
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Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Job answered, and said:
Revised Standard Version
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Young's Literal Translation
And Job answereth and saith: --
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Job answered,

Contextual Overview

1 Then Job answered, 2 "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation. 3 Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on. 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient? 5 Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth. 6 When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 17:16
I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."
Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
Genesis 17:21
But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time in the next year."
Genesis 18:10
He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."
Genesis 21:17
God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, "What ails you, Hagar? Don't 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. He lived in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.
Genesis 50:24
Joseph said to his brothers, "I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of 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 tell them, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt;
Exodus 4:31
The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads 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


 
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