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| The Book of Job 21 | ||||||||||||||||
| The World English Online Bible (WLD) | ||||||||||||||||
| Job 21:1 | Then Job answered, | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:2 | "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:3 | Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:4 | As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:5 | Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:6 | When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:7 | "Why do the wicked live, Become old, yes, and grow mighty in power? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:8 | Their child is established with them in their sight, 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 bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:11 | They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:12 | They sing to the tambourine and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:13 | They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:14 | They tell God, 'Depart from us, For we don't want to know about your ways. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:15 | What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?' | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:16 | Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:17 | "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes on them? That God distributes sorrows in his anger? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:18 | That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:19 | You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:20 | Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:21 | For what does he care for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:22 | "Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judges those who are high? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:23 | One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:24 | His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:25 | Another dies in bitterness of soul, And never tastes of good. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:26 | They lie down alike in the dust, The worm covers them. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:27 | "Behold, I know your thoughts, The devices with which you would wrong me. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:28 | For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?' | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:29 | Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences, | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:30 | That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:31 | Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:32 | Yet shall he be borne to the grave, Men shall keep watch over the tomb. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:33 | The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 21:34 | So how can you comfort me with nonsense, Seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?" | |||||||||||||||
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