Tree of Life Version
Job 21:4
4As for me, is my complaint against man? If so, why should I not be impatient?
Job 21:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
- New International Version (NIV)“Is my complaint directed to a human being? Why should I not be impatient?
- English Standard Version (ESV)As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?
- New King James Version (NKJV)“As for me, is my complaint against man? And if it were, why should I not be impatient?
Context of Job 21:4
2“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation. 3Bear with me as I speak, and after I have spoken, mock on. As for me, is my complaint against man? If so, why should I not be impatient? 5Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth. 6When I think of it, I am terrified and my flesh shudders.
Read all of Job 21Job 21:4 word by word
הֶ֭אָנֹכִי לְאָדָ֣ם שִׂיחִ֑י וְאִם־מַ֝דּ֗וּעַ לֹא־תִקְצַ֥ר רוּחִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 21:4
- Job 7:11“So I will not keep silent; I will speak in the distress of my spirit, I will complain in bitterness of soul.
- Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will give full vent to my complaint; I will speak out of the bitterness of my soul.
- 1 Samuel 1:16Don’t consider your handmaid a wicked woman. For out of my great anguish and grief I’ve been praying until now.”
- Psalms 22:1For the music director, on “The Doe of the Dawn,” a psalm of David.
- Psalms 77:3In the day of my trouble I seek my Lord. At night my hand stretches out untiringly. My soul refuses to be comforted.
- Psalms 102:1A prayer of the afflicted one, when he is faint and pours out his lament before Adonai:
- Psalms 142:2I cry aloud with my voice to Adonai. With my voice I seek favor from Adonai.
- Matthew 26:38Then He tells them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.”
- 2 Kings 6:26As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him saying, “My lord the king, help!”
- Psalms 42:11As with a crushing in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, by saying to me all day, “Where is your God?”
- Exodus 6:9Moses spoke this way to Bnei-Yisrael, but they did not listen to him because of their broken spirit and cruel bondage.
Commentaries on Job 21:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4As for me - האנכי heanochi, "Alas for me!" Is it not with a man that I speak? And, if this be the case, why should not my spirit be troubled? I do not reply against my Maker: I suffer much from God and man; why then may I not have the privilege of complaining to creatures like myself?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4As for me, is my complaint to man? - There is some difficulty in the interpretation of this verse, and considerable variety of explanation may be seen among expositors. The “object” of the verse is plain. It is to state a reason why they should hear him with patience and without interruption. The meaning of this part of the verse probably is, that his principal difficulty was not with his friends, but with God. It was not so much what they had said, that…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. Job's difficulty was not as to man, but as to God, why He so afflicted him, as if he were the guilty hypocrite which the friends alleged him to be. Vulgate translates it, "my disputation." if it were--rather, "since this is the case."Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Job 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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