Job 21:2
1 Then Job answered:
“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
3 Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
4 Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
- KJV
- Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
- WEB
- “Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
- ASV
- Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations.
- DARBY
- Hear attentively my speech, and let this replace your consolations.
- BLB
- “Listen carefully [to] my speech, and let this be your⁺ consolation.
- ÅB
- Hør aktsomt på mitt ord og la dette være den trøst dere yder meg!
- OTB
- "Lytt nøye til mine ord,
og la dette være deres måte å trøste meg på. - B1930
- Hør aktsomt på mitt ord og la dette være den trøst I yder mig!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 2:1
We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
Read in contextJob 15:11
Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you?
Read in contextIsaiah 55:2
Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.
Read in contextJob 13:3–4
Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.
Read in contextJob 33:31–33
Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.
Read in contextJob 33:1
“But now, O Job, hear my speech, and listen to all my words.
Read in contextJob 34:2
“Hear my words, O wise men; give ear to me, O men of learning.
Read in contextJudges 9:7
When this was reported to Jotham, he climbed to the top of Mount Gerizim, raised his voice, and cried out: “Listen to me, O leaders of Shechem, and may God listen to you.
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