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Job 21:1

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Then Job spoke again:
Job 21:1 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB Then Job answered,
  • KJV But Job answered and said,
  • BSB Then Job answered:
  • NKJV Then Job answered and said:
  • NASB Then Job responded,

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Quick answer

This introduces Job's reply to Zophar's second speech. Job is about to directly challenge the friends' theology.

Overview

The narrator marks Job rising to answer Zophar, beginning a pivotal speech in which he confronts the claim that the wicked always suffer swift ruin. Here Job will argue from observation that the wicked often prosper, exposing the flaw in his friends' rigid system. The chapter advances the book's central wrestling with why the godly suffer and the godless seem to flourish.

Cross-references & the web

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Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Job videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • VideoWatch teaching on Job 21:1YouTube · Lay · Free

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.

  • CommentaryClassic commentaries for this verseBibleHub (20+ works) · Pastoral · Free

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on JobMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

How Job 21:1 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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But Jobאִיּוֹבansweredעָנָהand saidאָמַר
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