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Job 21:2
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Pay close attention to my words;let this be the consolation you offer.
"Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
"Keep listening to my words, and let this be your comfort.
"Listen carefully to my words, and let this be the way you comfort me.
"Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you offer me.
"Listen carefully to my speech, And let this be the consolation.
"Listen carefully to my speech, And let this be your way of consolation.
"Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
"Listen carefully to my speech,And let this be your way of consolation.
"Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
If you want to offer comfort, then listen to me.
"Listen carefully to my words; let this be the comfort you give me.
Hear attentively my speech, and let this replace your consolations.
"Listen to what I say. Let this be your way of comforting me.
Listen diligently to my speech, and let this be your consolation.
"Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.
Listen carefully to my speech, and let this be your comfort.
O heare my wordes, and amende yor selues.
Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations.
Give attention with care to my words; and let this be your comfort.
Hear diligently my speech; and let this be your consolations.
Heare diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
O heare diligently my wordes, and that shalbe in steede of your consolations,
Hear ye, hear ye my words, that I may not have this consolation from you.
Hear diligently my speech; and let this be your consolations.
Y preye, here ye my wordis, and do ye penaunce.
Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations.
Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
"Listen carefully to my speech, And let this be your consolation.
"Listen closely to what I am saying. That's one consolation you can give me.
"Be careful to listen to my words. Let this be the comfort you give me.
"Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.
Hear ye patiently my words, and let this be your consolation:
Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.
"Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.
Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation.
"Listen carefully to my speech, And let this be your way of consolation.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Hear: Job 13:3, Job 13:4, Job 18:2, Job 33:1, Job 33:31-33, Job 34:2, Judges 9:7, Isaiah 55:2, Hebrews 2:1
let this be: Job 15:11, Job 16:2
Reciprocal: Job 10:1 - I will leave Job 13:5 - General Job 13:6 - General
Cross-References
Then God saide, Sarah thy wife shall beare thee a sonne in deede, and thou shalt call his name Izhak: and I will establish my couenant with him for an euerlasting couenant, and with his seede after him.
But my couenant will I establish with Izhak, which Sarah shall beare vnto thee, the next yeere at this season.
And he saide, I will certainely come againe vnto thee according to ye time of life: and loe, Sarah thy wife shall haue a sonne. and Sarah heard in the tent doore, which was behinde him.
(Shall any thing be hard to the Lord? at the time appointed will I returne vnto thee, euen according to the time of life, and Sarah shall haue a sonne.)
Then she went and sate her ouer against him a farre off about a bowe shoote: for she said, I will not see the death of the child. and she sate downe ouer against him, and lift vp her voyce and wept.
Then God heard the voyce of ye childe, and the Angel of God called to Hagar from heauen, and said vnto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? feare not, for God hath heard the voyce of the childe where he is.
Then Abraham said, I will sweare.
And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water, which Abimelechs seruants had violently taken away.
And behold, thy cousin Elisabet, she hath also conceiued a sonne in her olde age: and this is her sixt moneth, which was called barren.
Hee gaue him also the couenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begate Isaac, and circumcised him the eight day: and Isaac begate Iacob, and Iacob the twelue Patriarkes.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Hear diligently my speech,.... The following oration or discourse he was about to deliver concerning the prosperity of wicked men; to which he desires their closest attention, that they might the better understand the force of his reasoning, the evidences and proof of fasts he should give; whereby, if their minds were open to conviction, they would clearly see their mistake, and that truth lay on his side:
and let this be your consolations; or "this shall be your consolations" k; meaning, either that they would receive instruction and benefit by his discourse, which would yield them pleasure and comfort; and to an ingenuous mind, to be convinced of an error, to have mistakes rectified, and to get knowledge of the truth, it is a real satisfaction, and affords pleasure; or else, that whereas their end in paying him a visit was to comfort him, and they had taken methods, as they thought, in order to it, but in Job's opinion to very little purpose, yea, they were, as he says, miserable comforters; now he observes, that if they would but be silent, and attentively listen to what he had to say, that would be in the room of all comforts they could give unto him; it would be a consolation to him, and be reckoned by him, instead of all they could give, or could propose to him, if he might have but this favour, to be heard with candour, diligence, and attention.
k ותהי זאת "et hoc erit consolationes vestrae", Beza, Mercerus; so Jarchi; "idque pro consolatione vobis", Tigurine version; "pro consolationibus vestris", Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Hear diligently - Hebrew “Hearing hear” - that is, hear attentively. What he was about to say was worthy of their solemn consideration.
And let this be your consolations - That is, “You came to me for the professed purpose of giving “me” consolation. In that you have wholly failed. You have done nothing to sustain or comfort me; but all that you have said has only tended to exasperate me, and to increase my sorrow. If you will now hear me attentively, I will take that as a consolation, and it shall be in the place of what I had a right to expect from you. It will be “some” comfort if I am permitted to express my sentiments without interruption, and I will accept it as a proof of kindness on your part.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 21:2. Let this be your consolations. — ותהי זאת תנחומתיכם uthehi zoth tanchumotheychem may be translated, "And let this be your retractations." Let what I am about to say induce you to retract what you have said, and to recall your false judgments.
נחם nacham signifies, not only to comfort, but to change one's mind, to repent; hence the Vulgate translates et agite paenitentiam, "and repent," which Coverdale follows in his version, and amende yourselves. Some suppose the verse to be understood ironically: I am now about to give you consolations for those you have given me. When I have done, then turn them into mockery if you please.
