Job 21:2
1 But Job answered and said,
Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
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
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
Read in contextJob 15:11
Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
Read in contextIsaiah 55:2
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Read in contextJob 13:3–4
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Read in contextJob 33:31–33
Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak.
Read in contextJob 33:1
Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
Read in contextJob 34:2
Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
Read in contextJudges 9:7
And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
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