Job 21:4 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Am I complaining about a person? Why shouldn't I be impatient?(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

ASV:

As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

BBE:

As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?

DBY:

As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?

ERV:

As for me, is my complaint to man? and why should I not be impatient?

JPS:

As for me, is my complaint to man? Or why should I not be impatient?

WBS:

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

WEB:

As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

YLT:

I -- to man is my complaint? and if so, wherefore May not my temper become short?

Job 21:4 Cross References

XREF:

Job 6:11 "What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should endure?

Job 7:11 "Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

21:4 As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it {b} were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?
(b) As though he would say, I do not talk with man but with God, who will not answer me, and therefore my mind must be troubled.

WES:

21:4 Is - I do not make my complaint to, or expect relief from you, or from any men, hut from God only: I am pouring forth my complaints to God. If - If my complaint were to man, have I not cause?

MHC:

21:1-6 Job comes closer to the question in dispute. This was, Whether outward prosperity is a mark of the true church, and the true members of it, so that ruin of a man's prosperity proves him a hypocrite? This they asserted, but Job denied. If they looked upon him, they might see misery enough to demand compassion, and their bold interpretations of this mysterious providence should be turned into silent wonder.

CONC:

Complaint Directed Impatient Outcry Short Shouldn't Spirit Temper Troubled Wherefore Wondered

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