Text -- Job 21:2 (NET)

21:2 “Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you offer me.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 21:2

¹ tn The intensity of the appeal is again expressed by the imperative followed by the infinitive absolute for emphasis. See note on “listen carefully” in 13:17.

² tc The LXX negates the sentence, “that I may not have this consolation from you.”

³ tn The word תַּנְחוּמֹתֵיכֶם (tankhumotekhem) is literally “your consolations,” the suffix being a subjective genitive. The friends had thought they were offering Job consolation (Job 14:11), but the consolation he wants from them is that they listen to him and respond accordingly.