Job 21:3

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Suffer me that I may speake, and when I haue spoken mocke on.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 16:10 : 10 They haue opened their mouthes wide vpon me, and smitten me vpon the cheeke dispitefully, they gather the selues together against me.
  • Job 17:2 : 2 Froward men are with me, and myne eye must continue in the bitternesse of them.
  • Job 16:20 : 20 My friendes geue me many wordes to scorne, and myne eye powreth out teares vnto God.
  • Job 12:4-5 : 4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, & he heareth him: The iust & the vpright is laughed to scorne. 5 Being as alight despised in the heartes of the riche, and as one redy to fall.
  • Job 13:9 : 9 Shall that helpe you when he calleth you to reckening? For as one man mocketh an other, so do ye mocke him.
  • Job 13:13 : 13 Holde your tongues for my sake, that I also may speake, and my sorowe shalbe the lesse.
  • Job 33:31-33 : 31 Marke wel O Iob, and heare me: hold thee still, and I will speake. 32 But if thou hast any thing to say, then aunswere me, and speake: for I desire to iustifie thee. 33 If thou hast nothing, then heare me, and hold thy tongue, and I shall teache thee wysdome.

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  • Job 21:4-5
    2 verses
    78%

    4 Is it for mans sake that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, shoulde not my spirite then be in sore trouble?

    5 Marke me well and be abashed, and lay your hande vpon your mouth.

  • 13 Holde your tongues for my sake, that I also may speake, and my sorowe shalbe the lesse.

  • Job 21:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1 Iob aunswered, and saide:

    2 O heare diligently my wordes, and that shalbe in steede of your consolations,

  • 2 Holde thee still a litle, & I shall shew thee what I haue yet to speake on gods behalfe.

  • 3 Shoulde thy lies make men holde their peace, and when thou mockest others shall no man make thee ashamed?

  • 19 What is he that wyll go to lawe with me? if I now holde my tongue I dye.

  • 22 Then call, and I wyll aunswere: or let me speake, and geue me then an aunswere.

  • 1 Wherefore heare my wordes O Iob, and hearken vnto all that I will say:

  • 20 Therfore will I speake, that I may haue a bent: I will open my lippes, and make aunswere.

  • Job 33:31-32
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    31 Marke wel O Iob, and heare me: hold thee still, and I will speake.

    32 But if thou hast any thing to say, then aunswere me, and speake: for I desire to iustifie thee.

  • 3 Neuerthelesse, I talke with the almightie, and my desire is to commune with God.

  • 2 Froward men are with me, and myne eye must continue in the bitternesse of them.

  • 4 O hearken thou vnto me also, and let me speake: aunswere vnto the thing that I wyll aske thee.

  • 20 Are not my dayes fewe? Let him then leaue of fro me, and let me a lone, that I may comfort my selfe a litle,

  • 5 But if ye wyll aduaunce your selues against me, and rebuke me for the shame that is come vpon me:

  • Job 16:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 Shall not vaine wordes come yet to an ende? Or what maketh thee bolde so to aunswere?

    4 I coulde speake as ye do also: but would God that your soule were in my soules steade, then could I frame wordes for you, and shake my head at you:

  • 10 Then shoulde I haue some comfort, yea I woulde desire him in my payne that he would not spare, for I wil not be against the wordes of the holy one.

  • 3 I haue sufficiently heard the checking of my reproofe, therefore the spirite of myne vnderstanding causeth me to aunswere.

  • 11 Therfore I wil not spare my mouth, but I will speake in the trouble of my spirite, and muse in the bitternesse of my mynde.

  • 2 And Iob aunswered, and sayde:

  • Job 23:3-5
    3 verses
    71%

    3 O that I might know him, and finde him, and that I might come before his seate:

    4 I woulde pleade my cause before hym, and fill my mouth with argumentes:

    5 I woulde knowe what aunswere he woulde geue me, and vnderstande what he woulde say vnto me.

  • 26 Therfore wyll I also laugh at your destruction, and mocke you, when the thyng that ye feare commeth vpon you,

  • 4 I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, & he heareth him: The iust & the vpright is laughed to scorne.

  • Job 10:1-2
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    1 My soule is cut of though I lyue, I wil powre out my coplaynte against my selfe, and will speake out of the very heauinesse of my soule.

    2 I will say vnto God: O do not condempne me, but shewe me wherefore thou contendest so with me?

  • 6 Now heare my reasoning, and ponder the argument of my lippes.

  • Job 16:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20 My friendes geue me many wordes to scorne, and myne eye powreth out teares vnto God.

    21 O that a body might pleate with God, as one man doth with an other:

  • 1 Iob aunswered, & said:

  • 35 O that I had one which woulde heare me: beholde my signe in the whiche the almightie shal aunswere for me, though he that is my contrarie partie hath written a booke against me.

  • 34 Let men of vnderstanding tell me, and let a wyse man hearken vnto me.

  • Job 19:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 Iob aunswered, and saide:

    2 How long wyll ye vexe my soule, and trouble me with wordes?

  • 7 All they that see me, laugh me to scorne: they do make a mowe, and nod their head at me.

  • 1 I am the man that thorowe the rodde of his wrath haue experience of miserie.

  • 10 Therefore I say, heare me, and I wil shewe you also myne vnderstanding.

  • 17 Then aunswered I in my turne, and I shewed myne opinion.

  • 7 There the righteous might dispute with him, so shoulde I be deliuered for euer from my iudge.

  • 3 Then Iob aunswered the Lorde, saying:

  • 2 When wyll ye make an ende of your wordes? Marke well, and then we wyll speake.

  • 23 Heare ye then, and hearken vnto my voyce, consider and ponder my speache.

  • 5 If thou canst then geue me aunswere, prepare thy selfe and stande before me face to face.

  • 9 Shall that helpe you when he calleth you to reckening? For as one man mocketh an other, so do ye mocke him.

  • 20 Shall it be tolde him what I saye? Shall man speake when he shalbe destroyed?