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Text -- Job 21:1-5 (NET)

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Job’s Reply to Zophar
21:1 Then Job answered: 21:2 “Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you offer me. 21:3 Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock. 21:4 Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient? 21:5 Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths.
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 · Job a man whose story is told in the book of Job,a man from the land of Uz in Edom


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Job | PSYCHOLOGY | PATIENCE | MOCK; MOCKER; MOCKING | HAND | more
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NET Notes: Job 21:1 In this chapter Job actually answers the ideas of all three of his friends. Here Job finds the flaw in their argument – he can point to wicked p...

NET Notes: Job 21:2 The word תַּנְחוּמֹתֵיכֶם (tankhumotekhem) is literall...

NET Notes: Job 21:3 The verb is the imperfect of לָעַג (la’ag). The Hiphil has the same basic sense as the Qal, “to mock; to der...

NET Notes: Job 21:4 Heb “why should my spirit/breath not be short” (see Num 21:4; Judg 16:16).

NET Notes: Job 21:5 The idiom is “put a hand over a mouth,” the natural gesture for keeping silent and listening (cf. Job 29:9; 40:4; Mic 7:16).

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