“Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.”
"Bear with me that I also may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on." Job asks for his turn. After he finishes, the friends may resume their mockery. The verse suggests that Job has accepted the friends' contempt but demands audience for his counter-testimony.
Church Fathers on Job 21:3
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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