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JOB ยท Chapter 21
21:1 But Job answered and said,
21:2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
21:3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock
on.
21:4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should
not my spirit be troubled?
21:5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
21:6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on
my flesh.
21:7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
21:8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their
offspring before their eyes.
21:9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon
them.
21:10 Their bull genders, and fails not; their cow calves, and casts
not her calf.
21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children
dance.
21:12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the
organ.
21:13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the
grave.
21:14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not
the knowledge of your ways.
21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit
should we have, if we pray unto him?
21:16 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked
is far from me.
21:17 How often is the candle of the wicked put out! and how often
comes their destruction upon them! God distributes sorrows in his anger.
21:18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm
carries away.
21:19 God lays up his iniquity for his children: he rewards him, and
he shall know it.
21:20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the
wrath of the Almighty.
21:21 For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when the number
of his months is cut off in the midst?
21:22 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judges those that are
high.
21:23 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
21:24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with
marrow.
21:25 And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, and never eats
with pleasure.
21:26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover
them.
21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which all of you
wrongfully imagine against me.
21:28 For all of you say, Where is the house of the prince? and where
are the dwelling places of the wicked?
21:29 Have all of you not asked them that go by the way? and do all
of you not know their tokens,
21:30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall
be brought forth to the day of wrath.
21:31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him
what he has done?
21:32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the
tomb.
21:33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man
shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
21:34 How then comfort all of you me in vain, seeing in your answers
there remains falsehood?
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