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| The Book of Job 21 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Douay-Rheims Version Online Bible (DRV) | ||||||||||||||||
| Job 21:1 | Then Job answered, and said: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:2 | Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:3 | Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:4 | Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:5 | Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:6 | As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:7 | Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:8 | Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children's children in their sight. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:9 | Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:10 | Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:11 | Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:12 | They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:13 | They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:14 | Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:15 | Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:16 | Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:17 | How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:18 | They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:19 | God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:20 | His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:21 | For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:22 | Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:23 | One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:24 | His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with marrow. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:25 | But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:26 | And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:27 | Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:28 | For you say: Where is the house of the prince ? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:29 | Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:30 | Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:31 | Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:32 | He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap of the dead. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:33 | He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:34 | How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth ? | |||||||||||||||
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