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| The Book of Job 21 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Darby Online Bible (DBY) | ||||||||||||||||
| Job 21:1 | And Job answered and said, | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:2 | Hear attentively my speech, and let this replace your consolations. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:3 | Suffer me and I will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on! | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:4 | As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:5 | Mark me, and be astonished, and lay the hand upon the mouth. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:6 | Even when I think [thereon], I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:7 | Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:8 | Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:9 | Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of +God upon them. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:10 | Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:11 | They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:12 | They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:13 | They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:14 | And they say unto ùGod, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways! | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:15 | What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:16 | Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me! | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:17 | How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows [to them] in his anger? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:18 | Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:19 | +God layeth up [the punishment of] his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:20 | His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:21 | For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:22 | Can any teach ùGod knowledge? And he it is that judgeth those that are high. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:23 | One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:24 | His sides are full of fat, and the marrow of his bones is moistened; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:25 | And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath not tasted good: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:26 | Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:27 | Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:28 | For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:29 | Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:30 | That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:31 | Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:32 | Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:33 | The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:34 | How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious. | |||||||||||||||
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