“Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.”
"Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolation." Job asks for the friends' attention. Ironically, he suggests that listening to his words might console them. The verse indicates that Job will offer them something, though not what they expect.
Church Fathers on Job 21:2
Hear I pray you my speech, and practise penitence. For he that when he said Hear, added, I pray you, shews how humbly he speaks, whilst he entreats persons, swelling with pride against him, to bring back their thought to the teaching of saving truth. But whereas holy men, within the pale of the Universal Church, are not only ready to teach what is right, but also to undergo things that are done against them, they do not dread being laughed at. Hence it is added; Suffer me…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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