Job 21:1

King James Version

But Job answered and said,

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New Living Translation
Then Job spoke again:

English Revised Version
Then Job answered and said,

Update Bible Version
Then Job answered and said,

New Century Version
Then Job answered:

New English Translation
Then Job answered:

Webster's Bible Translation
But Job answered and said,

World English Bible
Then Job answered,

Amplified Bible
Then Job answered and said,

English Standard Version
Then Job answered and said:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Joob answeride, and seide,

Berean Standard Bible
Then Job answered:

Contemporary English Version
Job's Reply to Zophar Job said:

American Standard Version
Then Job answered and said,

Bible in Basic English
Then Job made answer and said,

Complete Jewish Bible
Then Iyov responded:

Darby Translation
And Job answered and said,

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Job answered:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then Job answered and said:

King James Version (1611)
But Iob answered, and sayd,

New Life Bible
Then Job answered,

New Revised Standard
Then Job answered:

Geneva Bible (1587)
Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,

George Lamsa Translation
THEN Job answered and said,

Good News Translation
Listen to what I am saying; that is all the comfort I ask from you. <

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then responded Job, and said: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Job answered, and said:

Revised Standard Version
Then Job answered:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iob aunswered, and saide:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But Job answered and said,

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Job answered:

Hebrew Names Version
Then Iyov answered,

Lexham English Bible
Then Job answered and said,

Literal Translation
And Job answered and said:

Young's Literal Translation
And Job answereth and saith: --

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iob answered, and sayde:

New American Standard Bible
Then Job responded,

New King James Version
Then Job answered and said:

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Job answered,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Job answered and said,

Contextual Overview

¹ But Job answered and said, ² 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? ⁵ Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. ⁶ Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

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Cross-References

Genesis 17:16
And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.

Genesis 17:19
And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

Genesis 17:21
But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

Genesis 18:10
And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

Genesis 18:14
Is any thing too hard for the Lord ? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

Genesis 21:17
And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

Genesis 21:20
And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

Genesis 50:24
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Exodus 3:16
Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:

Exodus 4:31
And the people believed: and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But Job answered and said. In reply to what Zophar had asserted, concerning the prosperity of the wicked being only for a short time, Job 20:5; the contrary to which he most clearly proves, and that in many instances their prosperity continues as long as they live; that they die in it, and it is enjoyed by their posterity after them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXI

Job expresses himself as puzzled by the dispensations of Divine

Providence, because of the unequal distribution of temporal

goods; he shows that wicked men often live long, prosper in

their families, in their flocks, and in all their substance,

and yet live in defiance of God and sacred things, 1-16.

At other times their prosperity is suddenly blasted, and they

and their families come to ruin, 17-21.

God, however, is too wise to err; and he deals out various lots

to all according to his wisdom: some come sooner, others later,

to the grave: the strong and the weak, the prince and the

peasant, come to a similar end in this life; but the wicked

are reserved for a day of wrath, 22-33.

He charges his friends with falsehood in their pretended

attempts to comfort him, 34.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXI