Job 21:3
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Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.

that I may

Job 13:13 Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.

Job 33:31-33 Attend, Job, and hearken to me, and hold thy peace, whilst I speak. . . .

mock on

Job 12:4,5 He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn. . . .

Job 13:9 Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings?

Job 16:10,20 They have opened their mouths upon me, and reproaching me they have struck me on the cheek, they are filled with my pains. . . .

Job 17:2 I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.

Context
Job: God will Punish the Wicked
2Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance. 3Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.4Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?…
Cross References
Job 11:3
Shall men hold their peace to thee only? and when thou hast mocked others, shall no man confute thee?

Job 17:2
I have not sinned, and my eye abideth in bitterness.

Job 21:2
Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.

Lexicon
Bear with
שָׂ֭אוּנִי (’ū·nî)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5375: To lift, carry, take

me while I
וְאָנֹכִ֣י (wə·’ā·nō·ḵî)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 595: I

speak;
אֲדַבֵּ֑ר (’ă·ḏab·bêr)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

then after
וְאַחַ֖ר (wə·’a·ḥar)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 310: The hind or following part

I have spoken,
דַּבְּרִ֣י (dab·bə·rî)
Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

you may keep mocking.
תַלְעִֽיג׃ (ṯal·‘îḡ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3932: To deride, to speak unintelligibly


Additional Translations
Bear with me while I speak; then after I have spoken, you may keep mocking.Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.

Raise me, and I will speak; then ye shall not laugh me to scorn.

Suffer me and I will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on!

Suffer me, and I also will speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.

Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking -- ye may deride.
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