Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
Then why shouldn’t I be impatient?
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
International Standard Version
After all, isn't my complaint against a human being? If so, why shouldn't I be impatient?
A Conservative Version
As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?
American Standard Version
As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?
Amplified
“As for me, is my complaint to man or about him?
And why should I not be impatient and my spirit troubled?
Bible in Basic English
As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?
Darby Translation
As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?
Julia Smith Translation
I, is my complaint to man? and then wherefore shall not my spirit be shortened?
King James 2000
As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
Lexham Expanded Bible
[As for] me, [is] my complaint for human beings? And if [so], why cannot I be impatient?
Modern King James verseion
As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should my spirit not be troubled?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Is it with a man, that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, should not my spirit be then in sore trouble?
NET Bible
Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?
New Heart English Bible
As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?
The Emphasized Bible
Did, I, unto man, make my complaint? Wherefore, then, should my spirit not be impatient?
Webster
As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
World English Bible
As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?
Youngs Literal Translation
I -- to man is my complaint? and if so, wherefore May not my temper become short?
Interlinear
Siyach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 21:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar
3
then after I have spoken, you may continue mocking.
Then why shouldn’t I be impatient?
put your hand over your mouth.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Exodus 6:9
Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen
1 Samuel 1:16
Don’t think of me as a wicked woman;
2 Kings 6:26-27
As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “My lord the king, help!”
Job 6:11
What is my future, that I should be patient?
Job 7:11-21
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:1-2
I will express my complaint
and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalm 22:1-3
For the choir director: according to “The Deer of the Dawn.”
Why are You so far from my deliverance
and from my words of groaning?
Psalm 42:11
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.
Psalm 77:3-9
I meditate; my spirit becomes weak.
Psalm 102:1
A prayer of an afflicted person who is weak and pours out his lament before the Lord.
let my cry for help come before You.
Psalm 142:2-3
I reveal my trouble to Him.
Matthew 26:38
Then He said to them,