| Geneva Study Bible Hear diligently my speech, and let this {a} be your consolations. (a) Your diligent marking of my words will be to me a great consolation. Wesley's Notes 21:2 Hear, and c. - If you have no other comfort to administer, at least afford me this. And it will be a comfort to yourselves in the reflection, to have dealt tenderly with your afflicted friend. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 2. consolations-If you will listen calmly to me, this will be regarded as "consolations"; alluding to Eliphaz' boasted "consolations" (Job 15:11), which Job felt more as aggravations ("mockings," Job 21:3) than consolations (Job 16:2). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 21:1-6 Job comes closer to the question in dispute. This was, Whether outward prosperity is a mark of the true church, and the true members of it, so that ruin of a man's prosperity proves him a hypocrite? This they asserted, but Job denied. If they looked upon him, they might see misery enough to demand compassion, and their bold interpretations of this mysterious providence should be turned into silent wonder. | 
