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Job 21:3
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Bear with me while I speak;then after I have spoken, you may continue mocking.
Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
Be patient while I speak. After I have finished, you may continue to make fun of me.
Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock.
"Bear with me, and I also will speak; And after I have spoken, you may [continue to] mock [me].
"Bear with me that I may speak; Then after I have spoken, you may mock me.
Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.
Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.
Bear with me that I may speak;Then after I have spoken, you may mock.
Bear with me while I speak; then after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
Bear with me as I speak; then, after I have spoken, you can go on mocking.
Suffer me and I will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on!
Be patient while I speak. Then after I have finished speaking, you may make fun of me.
Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, then mock on.
Give me a chance to speak and then, when I am through, sneer if you like.
Bear with me, and I myself will speak; then after my speaking you can mock.
Rise with me and I shall speak; then after I have spoken, you may mock.
Suffre me a litle, that I maye speake also, and the laugh my wordes to scorne, yf ye will.
Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.
Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.
Suffer me, that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
Suffer me that I may speake, and after that I haue spoken, mocke on.
Suffer me that I may speake, and when I haue spoken mocke on.
Raise me, and I will speak; then ye shall not laugh me to scorn.
Suffer me, and I also will speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
Suffre ye me, that Y speke; and leiye ye aftir my wordis, if it schal seme worthi.
Allow me, and I also will speak; And after I have spoken, mock on.
Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.
Bear with me that I may speak, And after I have spoken, keep mocking.
Bear with me, and let me speak. After I have spoken, you may resume mocking me.
Listen to me while I speak. Then after I have spoken, you may keep on making fun of me.
Bear with me, and I will speak; then after I have spoken, mock on.
Suffer me, that, I, may speak, and, after I have spoken, thou canst mock!
Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.
Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking -- ye may deride.
"Bear with me that I may speak; Then after I have spoken, you may mock.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
that I may: Job 13:13, Job 33:31-33
mock on: Job 12:4, Job 12:5, Job 13:9, Job 16:10, Job 16:20, Job 17:2
Reciprocal: Job 7:11 - I will not Job 13:5 - General Job 13:6 - General Job 27:12 - altogether Job 32:20 - I will speak Job 36:2 - Suffer
Cross-References
But God answered: No! You and Sarah will have a son. His name will be Isaac, and I will make an everlasting promise to him and his descendants.
and Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Now everyone will laugh with me.
But God said, "Abraham, don't worry about your slave woman and the boy. Just do what Sarah tells you. Isaac will inherit your family name,
The Lord said, "Go get Isaac, your only son, the one you dearly love! Take him to the land of Moriah, and I will show you a mountain where you must sacrifice him to me on the fires of an altar."
But I brought Abraham across the Euphrates River and led him through the land of Canaan. I blessed him by giving him Isaac, the first in a line of many descendants.
From Abraham to King David, his ancestors were: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah and his brothers (Judah's sons were Perez and Zerah, and their mother was Tamar), Hezron; Ram, Amminadab, Nahshon, Salmon, Boaz (his mother was Rahab), Obed (his mother was Ruth), Jesse, and King David. From David to the time of the exile in Babylonia, the ancestors of Jesus were: David, Solomon (his mother had been Uriah's wife), Rehoboam, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram; Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah, and Jehoiachin and his brothers.
God said to Abraham, "Every son in each family must be circumcised to show that you have kept your agreement with me." So when Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him. Later, Isaac circumcised his son Jacob, and Jacob circumcised his twelve sons.
In fact, when God made the promise to Abraham, he meant only Abraham's descendants by his son Isaac. God was talking only about Isaac when he promised
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Suffer me that I may speak,.... To go on with his discourse, without any interruption, until he had finished it; as he before craves their attention, here he entreats their patience to hear him out, as well as to give him leave to begin; they might by their gestures seem as if they were breaking up and departing; or they raised a tumultuous clamour, to hinder his proceeding to reply; or he might fear, that if he was allowed to speak, they would break in upon him before he had done, as they had already; or "bear me", as several of the Jewish commentators explain the phrase; though what he was going to say might sit heavy upon their minds, and be very burdensome, grating, and uneasy to them; yet he entreats they would endure it patiently, until he had made an end of speaking:
and after that I have spoken, mock on; as they had already,
Job 12:4; they had mocked not at his troubles and afflictions, but at his words and arguments in vindication of his innocence; and now all he entreats of them is, that they would admit him to speak once more, and to finish his discourse; and then if they thought fit, or if they could, to go on with their scoffs and derisions of him; if he could but obtain this favour, he should be easy, he should not regard their mockings, but bear them patiently; and he seems to intimate, that he thought he should be able to say such things to them, that would spoil their mocking, and prevent it for the future; so the Greek version renders it, "thou shalt not laugh"; and the words being singular have led many to think, that Zophar, who spoke last, is particularly intended, though it may respect everyone of his friends.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Suffer me that I may speak - Allow me to speak without interruption, or bear with me while I freely express my sentiments - it is all that I now ask.
And after that I have spoken, mock on - Resume your reproaches, if you will, when I am done. I ask only the privilege of expressing my thoughts on a very important point, and when that is done, I will allow you to resume your remarks as you have done before, and you may utter your sentiments without interruption. Or it may be, that Job utters this in a kind of triumph, and that he feels that what he was about to say was so important that it would end the “argument;” and that all they could say after that would be mere mockery and reviling. The word rendered “mock on” (לעג lâ‛ag) means, originally, “to stammer, to speak unintelligibly” - then, “to speak in a barbarous or foreign language” - then, “to deride or to mock, to ridicule or insult.” The idea is, that they might mock his woes, and torture his feelings as they had done, if they would only allow him to express his sentiments.
