Job 36:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.

Job 36:2 —

Old words in this verse

suffer: — often: allow, permit.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 21:3
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
2 Corinthians 5:20
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
Job 13:7-8
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? …
Jeremiah 15:19
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
Ezekiel 2:7
And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

Once more Elihu begs the patience of the auditory, and Job’s particularly, for he has not said all that he has to say, but he will not detain them long. Stand about me a little (so some read it), Job 36:2. “Let me have your attendance, your attention, awhile longer, and I will speak but this once, as plainly and as much to the purpose as I can.” To gain this he pleads, 1. That he had a good cause,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

Job 36:1-33. 1-2. Elihu maintains that afflictions are to the godly disciplinary, in order to lead them to attain a higher moral worth, and that the reason for their continuance is not, as the friends asserted, on account of the sufferer’s extraordinary guilt, but because the discipline has not yet attained its object, namely, to lend him to humble himself penitently before God (Is 9:13; Jr 5:3).…