Job 21:3
Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
BSB
ASV
Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.
KJV
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
Suffer me that I may speak - Allow me to speak without interruption, or bear with me while I freely express my sentiments - it is all that I now ask. And after that I have spoken, mock on - Resume your reproaches, if you will, when I am done. I ask only the privilege of expressing my thoughts on a very important point, and when that is done, I will allow you to resume your remarks as you have done before, and you may utter your sentiments without interruption.
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.
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Job 16:10They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
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But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.
They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.
I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
At this, the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.
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Job 16:20My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
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During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His…
I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.