Job 21:3

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Bear with me while I speak, and after I have spoken, you may mock.

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  • Job 16:10 : 10 They gape at me with their mouths; they strike my cheeks in scorn and together they conspire against me.
  • Job 17:2 : 2 Surely mockers are with me, and my eye must dwell on their provocations.
  • Job 16:20 : 20 My intercessors are my friends; my eye drips to God.
  • Job 12:4-5 : 4 "I have become a laughingstock to my friends, I who called on God and He answered me, a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!" 5 "Those who are at ease hold contempt for misfortune, as if it were prepared for the feet of those slipping."
  • Job 13:9 : 9 Would it be well when He examines you? Could you deceive Him as you deceive a mortal?
  • Job 13:13 : 13 Be silent and let me speak. Whatever happens to me, let it come!
  • Job 33:31-33 : 31 Pay attention, Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak. 32 If you have anything to say, answer me; speak up, for I want to justify you. 33 But if not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.

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  • Job 21:4-5
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    4 Is my complaint directed to a man? Why then should my spirit not be impatient?

    5 Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.

  • 13 Be silent and let me speak. Whatever happens to me, let it come!

  • Job 21:1-2
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    1 Then Job answered and said:

    2 Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.

  • 2 Wait a little longer for me, and I will show you that there is still more to say on God's behalf.

  • 3 Will your empty talk silence others? Will you mock without anyone to rebuke you?

  • 19 Who can contend with me? For now, if I am silent, I will perish.

  • 22 Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You respond to me.

  • 1 But now, Job, please listen to my words and pay attention to all I have to say.

  • 20 Let me speak so that I may find relief; let me open my lips and answer.

  • Job 33:31-32
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    31 Pay attention, Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

    32 If you have anything to say, answer me; speak up, for I want to justify you.

  • 3 But I desire to speak to the Almighty, and I wish to reason with God.

  • 2 Surely mockers are with me, and my eye must dwell on their provocations.

  • 4 You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.'

  • 20 Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

  • 5 If indeed you are exalting yourselves over me and using my disgrace to argue against me,

  • Job 16:3-4
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    3 Will your words of wind never end? Or what provokes you to answer?

    4 I could also speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

  • 10 It would still be my comfort— I would even exult in the midst of unrelenting pain— for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • 3 I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding prompts me to reply.

  • 11 Therefore, I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 2 And Job answered and said:

  • Job 23:3-5
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    3 If only I knew where to find him, so that I might come to his dwelling.

    4 I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

    5 I would know the words he would answer me with and understand what he would say to me.

  • 26 I too will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you,

  • 4 "I have become a laughingstock to my friends, I who called on God and He answered me, a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!"

  • Job 10:1-2
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    1 I am disgusted with my life; I will give voice to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.

    2 I will say to God: Do not condemn me; tell me why You contend with me.

  • 6 Listen now to my argument and pay attention to the contentions of my lips.

  • Job 16:20-21
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    20 My intercessors are my friends; my eye drips to God.

    21 Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as one does for his neighbor.

  • 1 Then Job answered and said:

  • 35 Oh, that someone would hear me! I sign now my defense; let the Almighty answer me. Let my accuser write out his charges in a book.

  • 34 Men of understanding declare, and the wise man who hears me says:

  • Job 19:1-2
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    1 Then Job answered and said,

    2 How long will you torment my soul and crush me with words?

  • 7 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people.

  • 1 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of His wrath.

  • 10 Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me; I too will declare what I know.’

  • 17 I too will give my answer; I will express my opinion as well.

  • 7 There the upright could reason with him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • 3 Then Job answered the LORD and said:

  • 2 How long will you keep putting an end to words? Consider, and then we will speak.

  • 23 Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear my words.

  • 5 If you can, answer me; prepare yourself before me and take your stand.

  • 9 Would it be well when He examines you? Could you deceive Him as you deceive a mortal?

  • 20 Should it be told to Him that I would speak? Or should a man say that he would be swallowed up?