KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 21:2–3
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Job 21:2
2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
2Heare diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
Job 21:3
3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
3Suffer me that I may speake, and after that I haue spoken, mocke on.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 21:2
To perceive by the ear; to listen, attend, understand, or obey, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
diligently
With steady care, earnest effort, or close attention.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Spoken words; discourse, language, or an address.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
consolations
Comfort.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 21:3
To bear, undergo, or endure pain, loss, or hardship; also to allow or permit.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To utter words; to say, declare, address, or communicate by speech.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Later than, behind, following, or in pursuit of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To ridicule or treat with scorn; also an imitation or false appearance.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
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From verse 2
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Open the full verse study1THEREFORE we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
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Open the full verse study2Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
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Open the full verse study3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
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Open the full verse study11Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
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Open the full verse study2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
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Open the full verse study2How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
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Open the full verse study1WHEREFORE, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
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Open the full verse study31Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak.
32If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
33If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.
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Open the full verse study2Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
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Open the full verse study7¶ And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.
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Open the full verse study10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
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Open the full verse study2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
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Open the full verse study20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
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Open the full verse study4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
5He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
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Open the full verse study13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
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Open the full verse study9Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
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Open the full verse study31Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I will speak.
32If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.
33If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.
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