Job 21:3
Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 16:10 : 10 People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.
- Job 17:2 : 2 Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
- Job 16:20 : 20 My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
- Job 12:4-5 : 4 I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered– a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock! 5 For calamity, there is derision(according to the ideas of the fortunate)– a fate for those whose feet slip!
- Job 13:9 : 9 Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him?
- Job 13:13 : 13 “Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may.
- Job 33:31-33 : 31 Pay attention, Job– listen to me; be silent, and I will speak. 32 If you have any words, reply to me; speak, for I want to justify you. 33 If not, you listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”
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3 Should people remain silent at your idle talk, and should no one rebuke you when you mock?
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19 Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.
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22 Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you respond to me.
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1 Elihu Invites Job’s Attention“But now, O Job, listen to my words, and hear everything I have to say!
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20 I will speak, so that I may find relief; I will open my lips, so that I may answer.
- Job 33:31-322 verses73%
31 Pay attention, Job– listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.
32 If you have any words, reply to me; speak, for I want to justify you.
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3 But I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.
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2 Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
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4 You said,‘Pay attention, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’
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20 Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
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5 If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,
- Job 16:3-42 verses72%
3 Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
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2 Job spoke up and said:
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26 so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes,
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20 My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;
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1 Job’s Reply to Eliphaz Then Job answered:
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34 Men of understanding say to me– any wise man listening to me says–
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17 I too will answer my part, I too will explain what I know.
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7 There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.
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3 Then Job answered the LORD:
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2 “How long until you make an end of words? You must consider, and then we can talk.
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23 Pay attention and listen to my message! Be attentive and listen to what I have to say!
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5 Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand!
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9 Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him?
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20 Should he be informed that I want to speak? If a man speaks, surely he will be swallowed up!