Job 21:2
“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
BSB
ASV
Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations.
KJV
Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
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.
He owns that God does sometimes hang up a wicked man as it were in chains, in terrorem --as a terror to others, by some visible remarkable judgment in this life, but denies that he always does so; nay, he maintains that commonly he does otherwise, suffering even the worst of sinners to live all their days in prosperity and to go out of the world without any visible mark of his wrath upon them.
"After I have spoken you may go on with what you have to say, and I will not hinder you, no, though you go on to mock me." Those that engage in controversy must reckon upon having hard words given them, and resolve to bear reproach patiently; for, generally, those that mock will mock on, whatever is said to them.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Hebrews 2:1We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
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But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.
Therefore I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you now have.
My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.
My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as…
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Job 16:2“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
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You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
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Job 15:11Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you?
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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.