Job 21:2

Hear diligently my speech. — “Listen to my words, and let that be the consolation you give me.”

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Albert 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 le...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Hear diligently my speech, and let this (a) be your consolations. (a) Your diligent marking of my words will be to me a great consolation.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 21. Job's Reply. Zophar was graphic and vigorous, but had nothing to say. Nevertheless his speech suggests to Job his next argument. The facts...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Hear diligently. See note on Job 13:17 .
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. Let this be your consolations - ותהי זאת תנחומתיכם uthehi zoth tanchumotheychem may be...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And let this be your consolations— And let this be the consolation you administer. Heath. Schultens renders it, And this shall be for your conso...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. Consolations. If you will listen calmly to me, this will be regarded by me as "...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job's Sixth Speech Zophar, like the other friends, had insisted on the certain retribution for sin which befalls the wicked in this life. Now at l...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XVIII. ARE THE WAYS OF THE LORD EQUAL? Job 21:1-34 Job SPEAKS WITH less of personal distress and a more collected mind than before Job begins...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Shall Any Teach God?” Job 21:1-34 After a brief introduction, in which he claims the right to reply, Job 21:1-6 , Job brings forward a new ar...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here, as in the first cycle, Job answered not merely Zophar, but the whole argument. First of all, he set over against their statement and illustrati...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(1) В¶ 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...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

‘AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM’ ‘Hear diligently my speech,’ etc. Job 21:2 I. Job asks his friends to suffer him again to speak, because his complain...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hear diligently my speech ,.... The following oration or discourse he was about to deliver concerning the prosperity of wicked men; to which he desi...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. Ver. 2. Hear diligently my speech ] Heb. In hearing hear. The Greek hath it, Hear, h...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hear diligently my speech If you have no other comfort to administer, at least afford me this: be so kind, so just, as to give me a patient hearing...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JOB SILENCES ZOPHAR (vv.1-34). The callous cruelty of Zophar's speech would surely cause some men to be bitterly angry, but while Job was incens...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Reply of Job to Zophar. B. C. 1520. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Or, this shall be your consolations , i.e. I shall accept of your patient and diligent attention to me, instead of all those consolations which you...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR’S SECOND SPEECH The ungodly, instead of experiencing the miseries indicated by Zophar, often, perhaps generally, enjoy con...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 21:2 . Consolations. נחם nicham, though mostly translated consolation, comfort &c., as in Isaiah 40:1 ; is in several places understood...
The Biblical Illustrator

But Job answered and said. Job’s third answer There is more logic and less passion in this address than in any of Job’s preceding speeches. He...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 21:1-18 Job answers Zophar, as he had answered Bildad, in a single not very lengthy chapter. After a few caustic introductor...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Appeals for Consideration
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hear diligently my speech and let this be your consolations. What Job was about to state was to take the place of the bungling attempts of his friend...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 2:1 ; Isaiah 55:2 ; Job 13:3 ; Job 13:4 ; Job 15:11 ; Job 16:2 ; Job 18:2 ; Job 33:1 ; Job 33:31-33 ; Job 34:2 ; Judges 9:7
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hear, &c. — If you have no other comfort to administer, at least afford me this. And it will be a comfort to yourselves in the reflection, to h...

² Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

Related Commentaries of Job 21:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 21:2