Job 21:3
Good News Translation
Give me a chance to speak and then, when I am through, sneer if you like.

New Revised Standard Version
Bear with me, and I will speak; then after I have spoken, mock on.

Contemporary English Version
And when I have finished, you can start your insults all over again.

New American Bible
Bear with me while I speak; and after I have spoken, you can mock!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.

that I may

Job 13:13 Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.

Job 33:31-33 Attend, Job, and hearken to me, and hold thy peace, whilst I speak. . . .

mock on

Job 12:4,5 He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn. . . .

Job 13:9 Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings?

Job 16:10,20 They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains. . . .

Job 17:2 I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.

Context
Job: God will Punish the Wicked
2Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance. 3Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.4Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?…
Cross References
Job 11:3
Shall men hold their peace to thee only? and when thou hast mocked others, shall no man confute thee?

Job 17:2
I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.

Job 21:2
Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.

Job 21:2
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