Cross References

Job 21:3

New American Bible - revised edition

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

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Shall your babblings keep others silent, and shall you deride and no one give rebuke?

Be silent! Let me alone that I may speak, no matter what happens to me.

Will it be well when he shall search you out? Can you deceive him as you do a mere human being?

They gape at me with their mouths; They strike me on the cheek with insults; they are all enlisted against me.

My friends it is who wrong me; before God my eyes shed tears,

Surely mockers surround me, at their provocation, my eyes grow dim.

At least listen to my words, and let that be the consolation you offer.

Look, you yourselves have all seen it; why do you spend yourselves in empty words!